If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.

There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.