Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

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

Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.

The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad's life.

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.

A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.