The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

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

Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

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.

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

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.