top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."
Author Name
Personal Development
"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The value of time is immeasurable."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."
Time
"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."
Money
"It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud."
Love
"When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny."
Fun
"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
Space
"Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?"
Fun
"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."
People
"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."
Purpose
"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that."
People
"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
Question
bottom of page