'Some years ago, I noticed amid the grading of many papers (the plight of every English professor) how often the positive feedback I wrote on my students' work consisted simply of the comment "good." I contemplated varying that word with others. But then I realized that good is the best word. (It is certainly easy to write!). Once in a while, the world excellent might be warranted. But not often. We live in a society so obsessed with "the best" that good is seldom good enough. But good is good. it is very good. It is the way God characterized his own creation in Genesis.'
Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well, p.131.
