...uncorny, human sized drama

I'm going to go with Chihuahua, just because I can't think of anything more frightening than a giant Chihuahua.

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.

I can only control what I can control.

...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.

I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be.