Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.