"Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers."
"Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom."
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Source: Alan King, Chris Chase (1997). “Name Dropping”, p.59, Simon and Schuster
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