It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

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

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

I was a chubby, unathletic kid and conformed to every possible stereotype you could imagine of someone who would end up in public broadcasting.

Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

I played no sports well. Because I was a boy in the United States Of America, I was forced into Little League and played horrible Little League baseball, and played football and basketball in school situations where I was forced to.