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.

Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.

There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

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.

I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.

My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.