But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

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.

It's the broken plans you have made that are the hardest to get over.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away.

A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.

Immorality is just as bad now as it was in the past. The difference is that now we flaunt it. It used to be done in secret, but now it is done in the open.

Success--something your friends will never forgive you.

Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.

I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

Even in the off season, people are streaming the show or buying the DVD sets, and new audience comes to Leverage every year weve been doing it.

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