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I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.

When I end up yelling, it's not really deliberate. It's usually out of some moment of passion or frustration or real desire to get unstuck.

In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.

I've always been surrounded by children - never bothered by their noise.

At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing.

I discovered the wife's got asthma. Thank God - I thought she was hissing at me.

I tend to get over-excited and very, very loud. I rein myself in when people flinch and dogs start howling.