“[I]f the alphabet is your hobby you’re in the best company of all: Aristotle, Plato, Shakespeare, Gutenberg, King James, Samuel Johnson, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, A. Lincoln, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Zapf, Eugene Ettenberg, Norman Cousins, Tom Wicker, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt too—all of them and many other greats have shown their expertise in using the alphabet superbly.”

—Edward Rondthaler, Life with Letters, as they turned photogenic, 1981.