Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

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

I think, as we all learn as a child, you have to learn to tolerate ambiguity better and I'm still terrible at it and I hate it; even the word ambiguity makes me sick to me stomach.

So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.

I've made my evolutionary purpose and had children. I don't care if anybody likes me, I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to do a whole comedy show about swimming in the loathsomely cold waters of Maine.

Terry Gross. I would rush home from high school to listen to Terry Gross.

I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television.