The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

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.

To the extent you expand your consciousness is the extent to which you experience being divine.

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Here. There. Everywhere. Somewhere. Home.

I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.

Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul?

In fact, pro wrestling is strong.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.