A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

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.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.

... 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.

[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.

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