A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.

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.

The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.