According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

It was easy to make fun of Bush, but it was sort of like shooting fish in a barrel and it didn't really feel all that good because it was so easy to do. I would much rather live under a thoughtful president. Even if it makes it harder to be funny about politics, it makes it more interesting to be funny about politics.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.