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

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 a while and look at people's faces.

I don't think I've ever stolen anything.

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."

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

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.

...uncorny, human sized drama