In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.

I know what it feels like to be a gun lover.

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.

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.

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

I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.