"You're beginning to sound like a cross between David Frost and David Susskind, and that is a cross I cannot bear."

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“Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.”

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“I hate the way he writes. I kind of love the way he lives, though.”

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