I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

I played no sports well. Because I was a boy in the United States Of America, I was forced into Little League and played horrible Little League baseball, and played football and basketball in school situations where I was forced to.

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

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

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.

Honestly, I don't see movies more than once.