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

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

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

I remember when I first got married, there was a certain amount of internet traffic on the subject of, "Who is this beard who is allegedly married to Ira Glass? Obviously, he's gay."

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

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