The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.

Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.

Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.