It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
DICK CAVETTNobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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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.
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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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.
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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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