I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.

I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.

I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.