For me, writing is just as much a choice as breathing. I can quit anytime I want, but not starting again would prove fatal.

The difference between moral dilemmas and ethical ones, philosophers say, is that in moral issues the choice is between right and wrong. In ethics, the choice is between two rights.

Insanity runs in my family, but somehow we've always managed to track it down and catch it again.

Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial.

In the FOMC statement, the Fed may have little choice but to acknowledge Q4 weakness, but will probably maintain that the first half (of 2006) should be better.

What kind of society, given the choice between recycling a mountain of paper and denuding a mountainside of trees would make a decision to do the latter? The answer: our kind. And it is time to change that.