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.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

I just feel like there's so many movies I haven't seen that I want to see, that I would never go back to the same one. It's funny because all my friends, they have movies that they've seen over and over again.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

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

...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.

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.