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.

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.

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

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

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.