The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.

A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis.

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.