I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

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?'

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.