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.
William SafirePreviously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.
William SafireA reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
William SafireTo be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.
William Safire