"I just had butterflies, cherubs, rainbows, unicorns." - ELSA WAITHE, The Heart Wants What It Wants, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #TheHeartWantsWhatItWants #NationalUnicornDay #ElsaWaithe

"What's a dictator?" - IRA GLASS, Know When to Fold 'Em, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #KnowWhentoFoldEm #IraGlass

"He marches the librarian towards the books for older kids." - IRA GLASS, The Room of Requirement, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #TheRoomofRequirement #NationalLibrarianDay #IraGlass

"So if your house is valued at, say, $100,000, it would cost you another $340 on your tax bill." - SARAH KOENIG, What Kind of Country, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #WhatKindofCountry #TaxDay #SarahKoenig

"There's tax software!" - BRIAN REED, Wake Up Now, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #WakeUpNow #TaxDay #BrianReed

"We just had Easter and Passover." - IRA GLASS, The Ten Commandments, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #TheTenCommandments #Passover #IraGlass

"They got the dog back!" - IRA GLASS, The Longest Distance Between Two Points, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #NationalPetDay #IraGlass

"He says it's his cat, and the cat is a really gentle spirit!" - IRA GLASS, The Possum Experiment, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #NationalPetDay #IraGlass

"You called the IRS on the guy?" - IRA GLASS, Naming Names, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #NamingNames #NationalReportIRSTaxFraudDay #IraGlass

"And then he showed me this pink unicorn." - ECE KAMAR, Greetings, People Of Earth, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #NationalUnicornDay #EceKamar

"It's in the library." - ZOE CHACE, The Room of Requirement, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #TheRoomofRequirement #NationalLibraryDay #ZoeChace

"So we got us some burritos." - DAVE EGGERS, Family Business, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #FamilyBusiness #NationalBurritoDay #DaveEggers

"It's a catastrophe." - ALEX BLUMBERG, Nice Work If You Can Get It, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #NiceWorkIfYouCanGetIt #AlexBlumberg

"Finally, around 11:00 AM, some friends from the area showed up with burritos and water!" - NANCY UPDIKE, Left Behind, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #LeftBehind #NationalBurritoDay #NancyUpdike

"It's all so bizarrely DIY." - LINA MISITZIS, Digging Up the Bones, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #DiggingUptheBones #NationalDIYDay #LinaMisitzis

#thisamericanlife diese Woche u.a. dazu, wie ausländische Studierende verhaftet oder abgeschoben werden. Die Profs gehen ja eh ins Ausland…Jeden Tag neue Tabubrüche in den #USA

"Oh, did you see the Eiffel Tower?" - DAVID RAKOFF, Promised Land, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #PromisedLand #EiffelTowerDay #DavidRakoff

"We pictured Phil Collins at the piano writing it, the tears running down his face." - STARLEE KINE, Break-Up, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #BreakUp #WorldPianoDay #StarleeKine

"The resorts must have room service, hot tubs, good beaches, and shopping on site, OR nearby." - THOMAS LYNCH, Business of Death, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #BusinessofDeath #NationalHotTubDay #ThomasLynch

"And we considered a bunch of different films to turn into yoga-- Silence of the Lambs and Pulp Fiction and Parasite-- before we settled on this film." - IRA GLASS, Audience of One, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #AudienceofOne #QuentinTarantino #IraGlass