You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will.

You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.

The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.