Thursday, 4 October 2001 : "Jon Stewart's monologue"

I’m sorry to do this to you. It’s another entertainment show beginning with an overwrought speech of a shaken host. TV is nothing if not redundant. So, I apologize for that.

"Subliminable" is not a punch line anymore. ... Lord willing, it will become that again because that means we have ridden out the storm.

You know, all this talk about "These guys are criminal masterminds. They’ve gotten together and their extraordinary guile…and their wit and their skill." It's a lie. Any fool can blow something up. Any fool can destroy. But to see these guys, these firefighters, these policemen and people from all over the country, literally, with buckets, rebuilding. That's extraordinary.