Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.

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

The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know.

English is a stretch language; one size fits all.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.