Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.

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.

If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.

....because of all the things in this world that can hurt you and knock you down, I will never be one of them.

The corridor didn't seem long enough to contain so much blackness.'Passing Through Peacehaven

PREFACE PROBLEM: Nobody reads prefaces.SOLUTION: Call the preface Chapter 1.NEW PROBLEM CREATED BY SOLUTION: Chapter 1 is boring.RESOLUTION: Throw away Chapter 1 and call Chapter 2 Chapter 1.

A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.

My success is measured by my willingness to keep trying.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Nothing Exposes our true self more than how we treat each other in the home.

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.