Agreement is brought about by changing people’s minds – other people’s.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people’s linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation.

You just don’t know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.

I’m going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you’re arguing is because you’re using different words.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don’t know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.

America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create a new life for themselves and their families. And what do these people who enter into the American mainstream have in common? English, our shared common language.