190 Quotes by ira glass

It’s not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he’s fun to read out loud.

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

If you’re not failing all the time, you’re not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

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.

You’ll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.

I don’t believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke. Pedophilia is a pleasure a person should have guilt about. Not chocolate.

It’s gonna take a while. It’s normal to take a while. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you’re being sincere all the time.

You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don’t know what’s going to be great.