We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
I can only control what I can control.
Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.
Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.
Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?
One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.