When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

I don't like that whole "art should challenge you" thing. Because I don't feel like art actually does challenge you. I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything.

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

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

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.

I'm going to go with Chihuahua, just because I can't think of anything more frightening than a giant Chihuahua.

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