1. “Never feel guilty about reading, it’s what you do to do your job.”
2. “The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you’re breaking.”
3. “A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a min’s manageable companion.”
4. “Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.”
5. “A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.”
6. “A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is a n honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.”
7. “Nothing stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.”
8. “The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.”
9. “Create your own constituency of the infuriated.”
10. “Never assume the obvious is true.”
11. “Have a definite option.”
12. “A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.”
13. “I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know.”
14. “When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to rescue.”
15. “When duty calls, that is when character counts.”
16. “Don’t expect others to do your work for you.”
17. “At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word .”
18. “Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.”
19. “By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.”
20. “If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.”
21. “English is a stretch language, one size fits all.”
22. “Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.”
23. “At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word become its meaning.”
24. “When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.”
25. “Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality and a woman’s virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.”
26. “Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks.”
27. “To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.”
28. “Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation and is thus a source of civilized delight.”
29. “Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.”
30. “A reader should b able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.”
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