I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

You just have to fight your way through.

Don't wait till you're older, or in some better job than you have now. Don't wait for anything. Don't wait till some magical...idea drops into your lap. That's not where ideas come from. Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.

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.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

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.