English, Our Common Language, Binds Our Diverse

There Is Only One Thing Age Can Give You, And That Is Wisdom.

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.

Animals Struggle With Each Other For Food Or For Leadership, But They Do Not, Like Human Beings, Struggle With Each Other For Thatthat Stands For Food Or Leadership: Such Things As Our Paper Symbols Of Wealth (money, Bonds, Titles), Badges Of Rank To Wear On Our Clothes, Or Low-number License Plates, Supposed By Some People To Stand For Social Precedence. For Animals The Relationship In Which One Thing Stands For Something Else Does Not Appear To Exist Except In Very Rudimentary Form.

In The Case Of Drama (stage, Movies, Television ), There Appear To Be People In Almost Every Audience Who Never Quite Fully Realize That A Play Is A Set Of Fictional, Symbolic Representations. An Actor Is One Who Symbolizes Other People, Real Or Imagined. [...] Also Some Years Ago It Was Reported That When Edward G. Robinson, Who Used To Play Gangster Roles With Extraordinary Vividness, Visited Chicago, Local Hoodlums Would Telephone Him At His Hotel To Pay Their Professional Respects.