I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

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.

No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

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

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.