Some years ago I had a complete nervous breakdown, was dead broke and had to be put in a charity ward with 30 others. I was there 18 months and doctors didn`t give me long to live. So now each day to me is a special dividend, so I live it to the hilt. - response to gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, who asked him why he was "trying to kill himself."
- Ernie Kovacs"Mine isn`t a string of victories. It`s no golden past. I`m no George Peppard fan." - to New York Post columnist Cindy Adams
- George PeppardI was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain`s naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe`s first film was shown here (The Asphalt Jungle (1950)), a columnist actually wrote: `How much like our Diana Dors she is`.
- Diana Dors(Talented ESPN.com columnist Bill Simmons will be at Borders in Mission Valley at 6 tonight to sign copies of his book,) Now I Can Die in Peace. ... Think of it as the director`s cut of a DVD, with the footnotes serving as the commentary.
- Bill SimmonsTonight, a surprising new development in the CIA leak investigation. Karl Rove`s testimony to a federal grand jury is being reported. The testimony suggests that President Bush`s political adviser may not have been the original source for the Valerie Plame leak. Rove testifying that he first learned about Plame from columnist Robert Novak, a CNN contributor. Dana Bash reports.
- Lou DobbsIt`s kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong.
- Bill ScottA politician wouldn`t dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
- Max LernerIt is the gossip columnist`s business to write about what is none of his business.
- Alsou Safin