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

I hate Danny Kaye movies.

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.

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.

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.