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

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

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

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.

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

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.