A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.

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.

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.

I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.'

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.

Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

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