The nice thing about live performance is that I've never, ever been let down. Partly I'm lucky that my audience self-selects itself. Generally they know what they're in for, and generally we all just like each other and get along. But I always find one or two or a dozen really interesting people in the audience who make the show different. And that's one of the things I really like about performing.

I really wouldn't censor myself. But because it was on such a slower scale, I would throw things out, and I indulged the personal stuff as little flashes of truth. Little in-jokes for anyone who was paying particular attention.

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

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.