America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes.

You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and - and if you're lucky, next week.

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

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.

We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.