Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.