I think even in today's America, there's a sense that there's something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.

If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

I don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive.

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.