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.

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

I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars - and, of course, the planets.

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.