The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.