“I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.”
“I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.”
Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
“I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.”
Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets
“I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.”
“Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.”
“Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.”
Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets
“I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.”
“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.”
Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
“I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.”
Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets
“Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.”
