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 dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

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

Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I feel like I actually work very hard to make sure the business side of the radio show runs, and no one has any interest in how a public radio show is run. And rightly so.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.