Edgar Bergen said:

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

After a sabbatical from radio for nearly a year, I needed to work with Charlie again. Ventriloquism is not like riding a bicycle. I have to keep practicing or Charlie would sit tounge-tied, silently staring at me with the chill eye of a department store dummy.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

Charlie, what is nature of life?

Charlie, where is the soul?

Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

I would like to see a vaudeville world of three-a-day. Five-a-day is too many. Managers who are trying to profit at that rate will gorge themselves right out of business. You can't put entertainment on a production line basis.

I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.