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.

Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

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

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

...uncorny, human sized drama

You just have to fight your way through.