Letterman: "I want to thank you folks for coming out for this run-through show. Thank you very much. This, of course, will never see the light of day… - Madonna

Letterman: (after the singer brands him a "sick fuck") "You realize this is being broadcast don't you?"

She never had public favor; it was a bit like the Hillary Clinton thing. She did all the right things for her country, but she wasn't ultimately revered. So she had a conversation with her confidant-adviser. She asked him, when have they ever looked up to or idolized a woman? Only one, he told her, the Virgin Mary. So she said, Then I will become like the Virgin Mary, and she did. She created a facade for herself; she stopped having lovers; she became like a virgin. She became sexless, and painted her face in a white alabaster way, and turned herself into an icon that was untouchable and sexless, and then she had everybody's respect.

One of my all-time favourite poets is Charles Bukowski. I think he's the coolest guy in the world.