I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.

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.

I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.