Telling a writer to relax is like telling a man to relax while being prodded for a possible hernia.

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.

The world is crazy about amassing guns, bombs and wealth of humongous proportions, but it will not give knowledge a second glance!

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

As a British fashion designer, it is an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be creative director of Team GB as the hosting nation of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.

Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.

I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.

I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.