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

Brad Pitt is really game to talk about whatever and is really fun to talk to and was totally up for discussing anything.

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

I was a chubby, unathletic kid and conformed to every possible stereotype you could imagine of someone who would end up in public broadcasting.

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