"I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers."

"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."

"I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there."

"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."

"Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited."

"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."

"Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."

"Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy."