Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.

...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.

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

I seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.

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