A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

To acquire style, begin by affecting none.

None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right.

Vigorous writing is concise.

Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

Love is the only reality, everything else is secondary.

Those eyes, they were my own kind of madness

Being simple is the most complicated thing nowadays!

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And it seemed like a nightmare.

If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.

Psychologically speaking, the rational, healthy response to climate change is to say to oneself, "What can I do about this?" But that question is often answered through individual action.

Opposing Bush's troop surge is a dangerous position.

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

We all like to prove people wrong who say we're no good.