The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

We are currently two hundred thousand dollars over goal for the Meyer wellness center.

We spend, on average, a couple of hundred thousand dollars an episode, which is a fraction of what the networks spend on dramas, ... We sort of look at these documentaries as cable's version of the drama.

I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me.

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.