An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

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?'

Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.

An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

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

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

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