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

You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

Brad Pitt is so good-looking there's a lightbulb inside of him shooting good-looking-ness in all directions.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.