The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

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.

It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

This is nothin for the radio... but they'll still play it though

Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.