We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just a platform for technological innovation: It's showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too.

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

I think it's too easy to recount your unhappy memories when you write about yourself. You bask in your own innocence. You revere your grief. You arrange your angers at their most becoming angles.

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.