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

Don't expect others to do your work for you.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.

Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.