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"Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream; nobody is too old for cartoons; bald men are sexy; chocolate is the best medicine; BIG books are better; cats secretly rule the planet; and everything should be available in the color pink, including monster trucks."
"In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band."
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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."
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"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."
"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."
"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."
"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."
"It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud."
"When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny."
"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
"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."
"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."
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