The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.

I don't think I've ever stolen anything.

Brad Pitt is really game to talk about whatever and is really fun to talk to and was totally up for discussing anything.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

Brad Pitt is so good-looking there's a lightbulb inside of him shooting good-looking-ness in all directions.

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.