I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers.

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

My lips are chapped from the winds of change.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.

You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.

Increase your happiness and the joy you experience every day through humour and laughter.

All you really have...is now.

Having love and not giving it is just as difficult as not having love and needing it

It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own sinfulness.

I like to say, in Hollywood, you can't make a redneck movie without me. That doesn't happen. You better not do it.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.

I think it's cool to come out of somewhere where you're being pushed into this mold and then you figure out in that who you are.

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!