You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.

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

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

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

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.