When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

Don't expect others to do your work for you.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.