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.

...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.

I think the most famous person I've ever met is Brad Pitt.

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

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

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

I just feel like there's so many movies I haven't seen that I want to see, that I would never go back to the same one. It's funny because all my friends, they have movies that they've seen over and over again.