Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

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.

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.

I hate Danny Kaye movies.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

When I'm doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: 'Tell about the guy who died on your show!'

I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.