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

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow.

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.

Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.

We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

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.