Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!

There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

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.

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.