It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

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.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

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.

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.