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

...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.

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

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

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

Right now I can't even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark

To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.

Leading innovation can be a uniquely lonely and unpopular thing because most of the time, you have to stand by yourself saying, "Everybody sees the world this way. I see the world another way."

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context.

I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment.

Live the moment for the moment.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

On Shabbat something happens to the world - the world becomes infinite again.

Honestly, Battlestar is a truly unique thing, and its hard for anything to step up to that. There arent often shows that are as good as that.