...these Stories Are A Kind Of Beacon.

I Think The Most Famous Person I've Ever Met Is Brad Pitt.

Honestly, There Are So Many Things About Structuring A Story For Film And Telling A Story For Film That Are Really Different From Doing Radio.

I Dont Meet Many People Who Are Talking About Shows On Showtime.

One Reason I Do The Live Shows - And The Monthly Speeches At Public Radio Stations - Is To Remind Myself That People Hear The Show, That It Has An Audience, That It Exists In The World. It's So Easy To Forget That.

It's Hard To Make Something That's Interesting. It's Really, Really Hard. It's Like A Law Of Nature, A Law Of Aerodynamics, That Anything That's Written Or Anything That's Created Wants To Be Mediocre. The Natural State Of All Writing Is Mediocrity... So What It Takes To Make Anything More Than Mediocre Is Such An Act Of Will.