I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

For most people when you say - public radio - they automatically think it's like medicine. We only do stories that amuse and interest us. For people who haven't heard the show, we describe it like a movie where there are characters and you're interested in what's going to happen to them.

There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.