Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe.

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.

When you begin to run after miracles you reduce yourself.

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

I love that my friends are all freaks.

It's a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.

While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.

"So you have your price."... "Your soul for a cookie."

It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.