I Don't Think I've Ever Stolen Anything.

...these Stories Are A Kind Of Beacon. By Making Stories Full Of Empathy And Amusement And The Sheer Pleasure Of Discovering The World, These Writers Reassert The Fact That We Live In A World Where Joy And Empathy And Pleasure Are All Around Us, There For The Noticing.

You Will Be Fierce. You Will Fearless. And You Will Make Work You Know In Your Heart Is Not As Good As You Want It To Be.

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.

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."

You'd Think That Radio Was Around Long Enough That Someone Would Have Coined A Word For Staring Into Space.