"I'm a writer because a blank page scares me less than an empty spreadsheet." —The Murr

"Sometimes I feel I've said all there is for me to say. So I sit back and wait for someone to set me straight. Usually in vain! And then what am I supposed to do?"

"In the speechwriting business it may be said," I told the readers of the Executive Communication Report (to which only crazy people don't subscribe, because it is useful and free), "the only change is more of the same."