Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

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.

Books fall open, you fall in

True freedom is in striving through adversities to accomplish all noble things that need to be done so that we may be free from any blame in the end!

A loser is one who has "given up on his dreams", so long as you are trying, you haven't lost yet!

'I don't remember if I thanked you for saving me, ' he said. 'So thank you.''You're welcome.' 'Though after this morning, I've added you to the list of those trying to kill me.'

How you start your day lays out how well you live it.

Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first.

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

Trust your first instinct.