I dont meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

I remember clearly that when I was little it was explained to me [that] the way that babies were made was that God put the baby into some lady's stomach, right? And, at some point, I learned how it really happened, and really that was the beginning of the end of my belief in God. Up until that point, it had always been a really weird act of intervention on God's part.

...uncorny, human sized drama

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

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.