It's confidence; it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.

God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet. . . . Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees. You come away wounded, feeling that life is unknowable, can never be understood, only endured and sometimes cheated.

That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.

For me, the monologue was the favorite thing I had done in radio. It was based on writing, but in the end it was radio, it was standing up and leaning forward into the dark and talking, letting words come out of you.