I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

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

The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

I played no sports well. Because I was a boy in the United States Of America, I was forced into Little League and played horrible Little League baseball, and played football and basketball in school situations where I was forced to.

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.