No one has ever questioned the credentials of a critic who writes a rave notice. - Art Buchwald

"This does not mean that when I had a syndicated column and became well known, he wasn't proud of what had been accomplished. He was simply unable to tell me. He told my sisters and he told his customers and he didn't hesitate to let on that we were related. But a wall from childhood separated us and he never could say "Well done."

Someone once told me that it was not unusual in a father-son relationship for the father to find it impossible to praise his son. I responded angrily, 'I don't care if it's usual or unusual, he could have said *something*."

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new...program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

I’ve found it’s harder for the family of the patient to accept what’s happening. In most cases — not all — the dying person has accepted his fate.