But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

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.

I can only control what I can control.

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 remember clearly that when I was little it was explained to me [that] the way that babies were made was that God put the baby into some lady's stomach, right? And, at some point, I learned how it really happened, and really that was the beginning of the end of my belief in God. Up until that point, it had always been a really weird act of intervention on God's part.

I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.