As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense 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.'

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

You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'

Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.