I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

Everyone deserves something so much better than what they deserve.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.

I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.