In the transcribing and the editing, you want some retention of how the person speaks - you don't want to edit out all of the hesitations and idiosyncrasies. And to get people to say something they've never said before. That's big.

Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do.

When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.

It's fun to give pleasure to people.

I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.

Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.