The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds.

Less is more.

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.

Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up.

I'm often dismayed by the sludge I see appearing on my screen if I approach writing as a task--the day's work--and not with some enjoyment.

The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.

Good writing is good writing, whatever form it takes and whatever we call it.

...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.

But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please.

It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't be careful enough.

It wont do to say that the reader is too dumb or too lazy to keep pace with the train of thought. If the reader is lost, it's usually because the writer hasn't been careful enough

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

The world is right because I feel good.p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs.

The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.

Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win.

it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.

When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.