Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.

O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

murder your darlings

The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

The Bible stands as the supreme Constitution for all mankind, its laws applying equally to all who live under its domain, without exception or special interpretation.

What can happen in 30 years? A senator can become a multi-millionaire in public office.

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.

Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.

Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.

Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.