Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.