When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

I am still working on patter and presentation.

I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

Thou shalt not stand idly by

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.

Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

I've always been who I've been. I've always been this person.

And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

Cath couldn't stop thinking about Levi and his ten thousand smiles.

Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments.