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

The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.

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

What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.

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

A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.

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