Clutter is the disease of American writing.

Less is more.

Writing is thinking on paper.

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

When you're ready to stop, stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make, look for the nearest exit.

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

Thought is action in rehearsal.

A clear sentence is no accident.

If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.

Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.

Self-Knowledge is the Jewel of all Knowledge."-Serena Jade

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles. -P 462 Master Tozay to Eona

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.