Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.

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.

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.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.