Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

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

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.

This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact.

You don't overturn a previous court's decisions lightly and I think most Americans are somewhere in the middle on abortion and there's not going to be a revolution here at all.

... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.

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.