...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.

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.