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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.

...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 Wish Somebody Had Given Me The News That Ideas Don't Just Fall On Your Head Like Fairy Dust. You Have To Treat That Like A Job. You Have To Spend Hours Each Day, Where You're Just Like, 'this Is The Part Of The Day When I'm Looking For An Idea.'

I Don't Think I've Ever Stolen Anything.

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.