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

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

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

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.

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

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

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."