It is a pretty odd profession - tickling people - but it can be lucrative.

No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

Did you know - and studies prove this - that 98 percent of all the Visine in this country runs down the side of people's faces?

I used to jog three miles a day, and then I saw I was getting a little bit older, so I started fast-walking three miles a day. Now I just drive.

I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.

I was what they call a pool hustler. That's absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool.

Pool is a fascinating game, but there is always the added factor of the money that really makes it hot.

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars.

The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities.