It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

Success is how you collect your minutes.

I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific.

If there was a sense of - a bigger sense of responsibility in the various leadership positions in America, things would be not as grotesquely overly done as they are now.

I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.