But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

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'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

Then what is the purpose of the Library?" Vale asked."To save books, " Irene said firmly.

And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

Sometimes love is best expressed through service. Words are great, but when you walk in love, your commitment must be more than words.

Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers.

We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

I don't read liner notes and stuff, and I don't read articles very often.

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".