It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

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

I remember when I first got married, there was a certain amount of internet traffic on the subject of, "Who is this beard who is allegedly married to Ira Glass? Obviously, he's gay."

I can only control what I can control.

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.

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

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.