... 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.

Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.

If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts.

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

You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.

It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.