If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts.

The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.

When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.