Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.