Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

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.

My primary goal is to create prosperity.

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

I don't drink hard liquor anymore, but I sometimes order Lagavulin just for the smell. It's so good. It's unbelievable.

Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I am like their dads, only funny.

Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.

I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.

Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.