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

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

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.

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

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.

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

Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?