I would say 70 percent of people who are in therapy are in therapy not because of their upbringing, not because of their mean sister or obsessions, but because of anxiety brought about by lack of financial security.

My candidacy is a compelling argument for my candidacy. I want to be President.

The reality is that if you want to be in a reality-based community, you've got to respect reality and that means calling it bad when you see the past ahead and it doesn't look good and acknowledging when it's going to work.

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal essaying for This American Life, but until someone forces you, with a deadline, to really observe your life - unless you're motivated to do it yourself - there's so many stories that you miss.

John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan.

When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be.