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.

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

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

I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.

I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.