To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

When duty calls, that is when character counts.

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

English is a stretch language; one size fits all.

I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted -- not my hand held by an old smoothie.

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.