In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood.

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.