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.

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.

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.

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.

Build your life not on the things of today, but on the things of tomorrow

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250, 000 in Britain.

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.

We're not blank slates. What we've done, what we've survived all go into us.

All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy.

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

We must not be so concerned with the unborn that we fail to pay attention to the born.