The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.

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.

Why you are searching for love all over the world, when inside you resides an endless ocean of love?

...all this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips...

Marisa starts to snoop. I might as well too. It's not often that I get to visit a water pellet company in a freaky refugee nation.

The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

One of the things people don't know about exorcism, is that you can't really use exorcism on things that are older than Christianity.

I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.