By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.

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.

This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact.

The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.

To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.