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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.

For Me To Do A Story, Something Has To Happen To Someone. It's A Story In The Way You Learn What A Story Is In Third Grade, Where There Is A Person And Things Happen To Them And Then Something Big Happens And They Realize Something New.

The Entire Culture Was Organized For People Who Are Happy. People Who Are Miserable Need Reassurance That Other People Are Miserable.

It Is Only By Going Through A Volume Of Work That... Your Work Will Be As Good As Your Ambitions. And I Took Longer To Figure Out How To Do This Than Anyone I've Ever Met. It's Gonna Take Awhile. It's Normal To Take Awhile. You've Just Gotta Fight Your Way Through.

I Remember Clearly That When I Was Little It Was Explained To Me [that] The Way That Babies Were Made Was That God Put The Baby Into Some Lady's Stomach, Right? And, At Some Point, I Learned How It Really Happened, And Really That Was The Beginning Of The End Of My Belief In God. Up Until That Point, It Had Always Been A Really Weird Act Of Intervention On God's Part.