At Middleton

Rachmaninoff is so hard. The guy must have had hands the size of trash can lids... You know? Stay away from the Russians. You know, enjoy them. Admire their passion. But, like, don't get obsessed with playing them.

Sometimes a day can be an eternity.

The line between ambition and obsession is much thinner than one might imagine. You would be well served to look down and see exactly where you are standing.

— Well, your girl seemed very determined.
— Audrey. Yeah, I named her after Audrey Hepburn, but it was a serious miscalculation. I should have named her Benito.
— A smartphone fascist?
— Right? Oh, my God. If Audrey had to give up either her phone or a kidney, she'd be on dialysis, I'm sure of it.

There are no wrong doors. All the world's a stage.

Lesson number four: know your audience. It's all about making a connection. That's the beauty of radio. Something goes on between you and the people out there. It's living and changing moment to moment. You can't see it, but you can feel it.

I've got a patient who's so afraid to die that he can't live. I've got a son that most of the time probably wishes I were dead. And I'm living a day that's making me realize I have been dead.

First lesson of radio: don't be late. Silence is death.

You're a very serious young woman... I didn't quite mean it as a compliment. It sounds as though you're hurrying somewhere in such a way that the journey will yield very little pleasure. Slow down. College should not necessarily be about narrowing your focus. It's about broadening your experience.