Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

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

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

English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

I think what Obama does more than his amazing speaking ability is he's able to connect with voters. And it's that hope that he brings out in American citizens that we are all hungry for, that people get excited about Sen. Obama.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.