I dont know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day..

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it..

I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in….

Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing..

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio..

Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself..

You just have to fight your way through..

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud..

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work..

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or ….

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend h….

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up..

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..

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's writ….

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews..

I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years w….

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake..

I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do..

Don't wait till you're older, or in some better job than you have now. Don't wait for anything. Don't wait till some magical...idea drops into your l….