I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right.

The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law.

ONLY' having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants to have what the Art came out from in their lives...

Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but... Ancaladar ate the horse.

I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.

No man is really changed by success. What happens is that success works on the man’s personality like a truth drug, bringing him out of the closet and revealing… what was always inside his head.

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

You can’t get mad at a bear for being racist. You can’t get mad at a bear for being offensive. It’s not real.

Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.