Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.

My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.

I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.

It's no fun being a specimen.

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.

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.