In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

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.

Without self-esteem and respect for others, you cannot be true to your own values.

Stories change us. They change the world. People are stories of themselves.

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, Im kind of astonished because I think, This is completely normal. This is just how I am, its how Ive always been.

I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exist.

Get the hell out of Palestine.

How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God.

If you are a student, try to be a teacher; if you are a teacher, try to be a student!

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

Moreover, it is clear that the era of the information bomb, the era of aerial warfare, the era of the RMA and global surveillance is also the era of the integral accident.