I Dont Go Looking For Stories With

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.

The Truth Is, I Just Don't Have That Much Time To See Movies. So If I Get Two Hours Where I Can Actually See A Film, I Don't Want To Go Backwards, I Want To Go Forwards.

...these Stories Are A Kind Of Beacon. By Making Stories Full Of Empathy And Amusement And The Sheer Pleasure Of Discovering The World, These Writers Reassert The Fact That We Live In A World Where Joy And Empathy And Pleasure Are All Around Us, There For The Noticing.

I Dont Know How To Read. I Get All My News From Jon Stewart Every Day.

It's Hard To Make Something That's Interesting. It's Really, Really Hard. It's Like A Law Of Nature, A Law Of Aerodynamics, That Anything That's Written Or Anything That's Created Wants To Be Mediocre. The Natural State Of All Writing Is Mediocrity... So What It Takes To Make Anything More Than Mediocre Is Such An Act Of Will.