Sarah Koenig Quotes

#1. FARC, the Colombian rebels who've been funding their revolution against the state with kidnapping, extortion, and drug dealing.

Janet Evanovich

#2. My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily.

Sarah Koenig

#3. The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid.

Lynne Stewart

#4. I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.

Sarah Koenig

#5. If you go to probably any jury trial in Baltimore that involves violence, either an assault or murder, and watch the voir dire, to me, that's when you get a sense of what it's like to live in Baltimore.

Sarah Koenig

#6. I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.

David Chipperfield

#7. I'm thin-skinned in a way that's just dumb.

Sarah Koenig

#8. It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That's a wonderful thing.

Sarah Koenig

#9. What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.

Cotton Mather

#10. Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything ... I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate ... It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs ...

David Sheff

#11. You know how everyone - there's this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn't mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn't mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her.

Sarah Koenig

#12. Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.

Sarah Koenig

#13. Good television people have a sense of what television people relate to.

Tim Finchem

#14. I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects - I mean, unless you're a robot.

Sarah Koenig

#15. People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.

Sarah Koenig

#16. I've been a radio reporter for ten years, and if I learned anything from my time at 'This American Life,' it's how to craft a narrative so that even if the ending is ambiguous, it is somehow satisfying.

Sarah Koenig

#17. My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions ... . The dove is my emblem ... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it ... . I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill ... .

Thomas A. Edison

#18. I love serialized stories of any kind. I'm a huge sucker for any kind of series.

Sarah Koenig

#19. I couldn't live in L.A. and not be close to the beach, you know, that's like the whole thing. I don't understand people who don't live by the beach. Why would you not?

Mayer Hawthorne

#20. They were both poles apart
One a ready masterpiece
Another an unfinished art...

Shonali Dey