I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.

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.

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.

The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.

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

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.

I don't think I've ever stolen anything.