The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.
Great stories happen to those who can tell them.
Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.
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.
You’ll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.
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.
You’d think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
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.
You just have to fight your way through.
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.
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 seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you’re being sincere all the time.
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
It’s not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he’s fun to read out loud.
I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.