History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers.

A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

Radio is the playground of coincidence.