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

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with you. Offensive letter follows."

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.

[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.

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'