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?

I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

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

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.