It Seems To Be A Law In

Most English Speakers Do Not Have The Writer's Short Fuse About Seeing Or Hearing Their Language Brutalized. This Is The Main Reason, I Suspect, That English Is Becoming The World's Universal Tongue: English-speaking Natives Don't Care How Badly Others Speak English As Long As They Speak It. French, Once Considered Likely To Become The World's Lingua Franca, Has Lost Popularity Because Those Who Are Born Speaking It Reject This Liberal Attitude And Become Depressed, Insulted Or Insufferable When Their Language Is Ill Used.

A Man Writing A Letter Is A Man In The Act Of Thinking, And It Was An Exercise Reagan Obviously Enjoyed. After His First Meeting With Gorbachev, For Example, He Sent A 'dear Murph' Letter About It To His Old Friend George Murphy, A Former Senator And Actor Who Had Once Played Reagan's Father In A Film.

The Best Thing About Being President Is That It Gets You Out Of American Life. I Don't Know What The Theory Is Behind This, But It Is A Fact. The First Thing We Do With A President Is Shunt Him Off To A Siding Where Nothing American Can Ever Happen To Him.

It Was Queen Elizabeth Who Made Me A Foreign Correspondent.

Skinny Women Don't Enjoy Being Told They're Skinny Nowadays. They Enjoy Telling You How They Got That Way, As Though Starvation Were An Achievement.