Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

I don't like that whole "art should challenge you" thing. Because I don't feel like art actually does challenge you. I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything.

I remember when I first got married, there was a certain amount of internet traffic on the subject of, "Who is this beard who is allegedly married to Ira Glass? Obviously, he's gay."

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

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.

I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.