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I am terrible with people's names.

When you write a high-tech thriller, and then people in the defense establishment start calling you - people I can't name - you feel you've hit a nerve.

I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark.

Anything by Lorrie Moore speaks to a certain kind of person.

I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life.

I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is.

I hate my name. It's a stupid, horrible name.

I named all my sons George Edward Foreman. And I tell people, 'If you're going to get hit as many times as I've been hit by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield - you're not going to remember many names.'

I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.