Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

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

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.