The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.

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.

Inspiring someone else to follow their dreams is the hope of anyone who has the courage to follow their own.

I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

But this…this kid wasn’t dead yet. Makes no sense to me. (Bubba) Maybe someone spiked his Wheaties? (Nick)

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.