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.

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.

Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn't possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.