I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

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

Honestly, I don't see movies more than once.

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.

...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.

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

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