I've always said [this] is the lowest form of journalism, and I see my job is to be entertaining. And I guess it's my curse, because I did it in a different way, they kept making me do it again in a different way. ... [This book] is my tonic for a celebrity-crazed culture.

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Here's a guy who comforted us for 30 years -- and boy, we're in a world now that needs all the comfort it can get.

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He believed in lecturing to others about how things should be done.

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