To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

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.

Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

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