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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.

If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be
I shouldn't say this at Christmastime
but the next messiah.

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.

Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.

It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.

I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.

When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.

A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.

Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.

Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

I didn't have a very religious family.

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.

Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don't complain. Fight the big fights.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.