And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.

The Web is cool, but the library is magic.

If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.

There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.

it is good to have measured myself, to recognize my limitations.

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her.

If you cannot measure it, then it is not science.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

It's hard to move on when you can see too many good possibilities or any kind of possibility really. That's something that always kind of slows me down and can be a bad place to be in.

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.