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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.

We're Jews, My Family, And Jews Break Down Into Two Distinct Subcultures: Book Jews And Money Jews. We Were Money Jews.

I Remember Clearly That When I Was Little It Was Explained To Me [that] The Way That Babies Were Made Was That God Put The Baby Into Some Lady's Stomach, Right? And, At Some Point, I Learned How It Really Happened, And Really That Was The Beginning Of The End Of My Belief In God. Up Until That Point, It Had Always Been A Really Weird Act Of Intervention On God's Part.

I Think Good Radio Often Uses The Techniques Of Fiction: Characters, Scenes, A Big Urgent Emotional Question. And As In The Best Fiction, Tone Counts For A Lot.

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.