For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.

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.

Every man should believe in something.If not..he would doubt everything, even himself.

Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.

We do not disappear without a trace. We leave a wake that never quite disappears, a gash in time that we so laboriously leave behind us.

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

More than fans, they felt like a team of morale-boosters who would always be around to remind me of my own worth

It's so ironic that you often hear these right-wing people talking about the Constitution.

How lucky I was to have played for the Pittsburgh Steelers fans. A proud, hard-working people, who loves their football, and their players.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

The ability to understand people is a choice.

I think most Republicans would rather win this election than have transformation.