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

I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

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!

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.