I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.

Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.