As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.

There are two kinds of people in this world, and I am one of them.

They have a lot of trouble with pronunciation, because they can't move their jaw muscles, because of malnutrition caused by wisely refusing to eat English food, much of which was designed and manufactured in medieval times during the reign of King Walter the Mildly Disturbed.

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.

A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

We kids feared many things in those days - werewolves, dentists, North Koreans, Sunday School - but they all paled in comparison with Brussels sprouts.