Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.

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

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

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

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will say, 'Well, there are so many people here who haven't murdered anyone. I think I'll go talk to them.' I'll also riot.