I am not running for president, but I've always known if I ever did run for president - or local dogcatcher, for… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, a man named Fred Rogers decided that he wanted to live in heaven. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, a long time ago, a man took off his jacket and put on a sweater. Then he took… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
The premise and promise of Big Data is that there are no stories, only patterns; that the human preference for story is… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, there was a boy who didn't like himself very much. It was not his fault. He was born… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
We live in the golden age of character actors - in an age when actors who have done their time in character… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
We live in a time of short attention spans and long stories. The short attention spans are seen as inevitable, the consequence… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Storytellers all, we humans might run out of time even as we triumph over the problem of running out of space. But… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I cook so that there is no absence. I cook so that I am always there, even when I'm gone, even when… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
For a long time, New Orleans was the classic-rock station of American cuisine, its reputation for flamboyance belying its playlist conservatism. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
His name was Fred Rogers. He came home to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, once upon a time, and his parents, because they were wealthy,… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
We love football because the game of football is better than it has ever been, and is somehow managing to attain, at… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Every artist can make art only from the materials at hand, and many of the child stars who try to mature into artists can… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I wasn't learning to sing because I thought I could; I was learning to sing because I knew I couldn't. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
We might accept pit bulls personally, but America still doesn't accept them institutionally, where it counts; indeed, apartment complexes and insurance companies are arrayed… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I collect songs because I want to control what I - what everybody within earshot - listens to. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Any child can tell you what Google does - Google gives you the answers. But Google doesn't, not really. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
My mother was not a country girl. She was a Brooklyn girl, born and raised in Flatbush, and then a Long Island girl, who… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
That there is as yet no drug for immortality - or, for that matter, for muscle growth in the infirm - does not mean… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I am not running for president, but I've always known if I ever did run for president - or local dogcatcher, for that matter… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Josh Ozersky was a meat man. He knew meat, revered it, studied it, sang it, evangelized it, wrote about it, and, of course, ate… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I was a bully in fifth and sixth grade. I wasn't one of the bullies - I wasn't strong or dominant enough to be… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I have about 25,000 songs on my computer and play them mostly on shuffle, which means that the songs I've played the most are… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Before the Beatles could give us 'The White Album', they had to achieve disorienting success. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
