You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.

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

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.

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.

I remember clearly that when I was little it was explained to me [that] the way that babies were made was that God put the baby into some lady's stomach, right? And, at some point, I learned how it really happened, and really that was the beginning of the end of my belief in God. Up until that point, it had always been a really weird act of intervention on God's part.

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.

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