To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature.

Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadn’t done anything wrong.

When you care about someone, you can’t just turn that off because you learn they betrayed you.

Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning again.

The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.

May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

I take the fan response very seriously and respond personally to my fan mail.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.

Make your own music. It can be done.

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.