A bath tub, apparently, was the first thing I wanted to be.

Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter.

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.