One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

I seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.