Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.

I realized that we're now at a point of self-reference with the Internet culture that there's almost no there left, you know? It's important to make new things. It's important to make culture, rather than simply reference it. I love a good cultural reference, and it's one of the great joys in my life, but it has to all be in balance with the core job, which is to make something new. And that sort of brings me around to why I started talking about my fondness for marijuana.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.

So I am a product of the Internet, and to some degree a product of this sensibility of constant cultural reference.

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 used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.