Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.

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.

I was in love with a beautiful blond once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

The remedy of disharmony is not in surrender but in understanding more about ones self & acting out of pure Will... Desire 2 will

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.

Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.

The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.

Go out there and row faster.

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?