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

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

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

I dont meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.