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.

...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.

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 ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.

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

I dont know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.