Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.

I seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.

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.

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

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

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.

You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.