Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

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.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

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 very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.