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.

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will.

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

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

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.

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

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.