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

The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.