I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.

Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.

I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.

I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.'

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.