I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

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.

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

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

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