Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.

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.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

There are many rivers that we cross in our lifetime, unfortunately some of those rivers just don't have bridges.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.

She [Barbra Streisand] was just - we can't know what we mean to each other. You know, artists, you can't know - you can't know that, but she was really important.

Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.

The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.

Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.