Querying System Views for Column Names

I often find myself needing a list of columns from a table or a view for a query, documentation, troubleshooting, etc. Easy enough to drag and drop them into a query window using SSMS but that's a pain. I have better things to do with my time. All of this information is available through SQL Server system views. The following query is also ANSI compliant.

SELECT

  ORDINAL_POSITION
  ,COLUMN_NAME
  ,DATA_TYPE
  ,CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH
  ,IS_NULLABLE
  ,COLUMN_DEFAULT
FROM
  INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE
  TABLE_NAME = 'Customer'
ORDER BY
  ORDINAL_POSITION ASC;

You can do something like the following to give you a comma separated list that can then be used for a query.

SELECT

  COLUMN_NAME + ','
FROM
  INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE
  TABLE_NAME = 'Customer'
ORDER BY
  ORDINAL_POSITION ASC;

Simple. Straightforward. Time-saver.