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

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.

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.

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

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

I have a long list of things that make me mad.

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.