Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.
I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.
I'm a cliche.
I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. 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.
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.
Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.
I can only control what I can control.
