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

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks.

I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know.