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

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."

I dont know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

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.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I feel like I actually work very hard to make sure the business side of the radio show runs, and no one has any interest in how a public radio show is run. And rightly so.

Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?