Good writing is lean and confident.

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.

No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night.

It's fine to feel truer than others.But it's much truer to fix our fault.

Multiple Spiritual Choices towards Light will accumulate your positive karma, upgrade your vision, develop your leadership skills

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.

Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish.

Anybody running beats anybody walking, and anybody walking beats anybody sitting.

Everyone dies but not everyone lives.