Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

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

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

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.