A Reader Should Be Able

If You Want To "get In Touch With Your Feelings," Fine, Talk To Yourself. We All Do. But If You Want To Communicate With Another Thinking Human Being, Get In Touch With Your Thoughts. Put Them In Order, Give Them A Purpose, Use Them To Persuade, To Instruct, To Discover, To Seduce. The Secret Way To Do This Is To Write It Down, And Then Cut Out The Confusing Parts.

The Tension Between The Governed And The Governing Is What Makes The World Go 'round. It's Not Love, It's That Tension, Because That Tension Exists In Love Affairs. The Whole Idea Of Control Is At The Heart Of Human Relationships. Control And Resistance To Control.

To Communicate, Put Your Words In Order; Give Them A Purpose; Use Them To Persuade, To Instruct, To Discover, To Seduce.

Never Assume The Obvious Is True.

Do Not Be Taken In By 'insiderisms.' Fledgling Columnists, Eager To Impress Readers With Their Grasp Of Journalistic Jargon, Are Drawn To Such Arcane Spellings As 'lede.' Where They Lede, Do Not Follow.