Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.

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

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.

There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

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.

Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.