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.

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

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.

Great humorists are great insulters.

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.