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

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

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.

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

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.

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.