So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day h….

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time..

The line changed my life 'cause I thought of some poor woman I hadn't even met walking around the United States or the world not knowing she's going ….

"The Prince Of Tides" is a lot about my mother - what my mother would do after Dad would hit one of the kids or hit two of the kids, hit all the kids….

There's so much kind of bureaucracy involved with the whole concept of net neutrality and like technical stuff..

Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending ….

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't quite gotten corpora….

I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or….

My father modestly referred to himself as the Great Santini when we were growing up. And he took it - I later learned he had seen a high-wire aeriali….

We grew up as this family of deniers. And people who knew us for years were stunned when "The Great Santini" came out because we had this appearance ….

My parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy thing I was into, she was very supportive of. You ….

Gene Wilder made his movie debut in "Bonnie And Clyde," starred in the Mel Brooks films "The Producers," "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles," ….

An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American….

If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really s….

The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like m….

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human..

It bothers me when people, say, you know, write for, you know, a web publication and get paid little or nothing or, you know, expecting to, like, rea….

So the Great Santini was how he liked being referred to by his children. He would line up his seven children, and there was this ritual we'd go throu….

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody….

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and….

One of the things Donald Trump has criticized Hillary [Clinton] for is discrediting women who said they'd had affairs or been sexually harassed by he….