When I Say Something Untrue On The

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.

When I Say Something Untrue On The Air, I Mean For It To Be Transparently Untrue. I Assume People Know When I'm Just Saying Something For Effect. Or To Be Funny.

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.

I Think The Thing That I Wish Somebody Would Ask Me Is Just To Ask About The Business Side Of The Radio Show. I Feel Like I Actually Work Very Hard To Make Sure The Business Side Of The Radio Show Runs, And No One Has Any Interest In How A Public Radio Show Is Run. And Rightly So.

Brad Pitt Is So Good-looking There's A Lightbulb Inside Of Him Shooting Good-looking-ness In All Directions.