Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish.

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.

Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.

I have only dwelt in my thoughts.

I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters

The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

Even the poor can be fat in the U.S.

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.