Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.

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.

We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later

How would you like to make money in real estate?

The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.

I always say to myself when things get too hectic, "Don't sweat the small stuff!"

I'm a positive person who likes to see things get done.

We lost a young man’s life and it begins to represent so many things.

I'm a rather decisive type.

As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.

The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible.

It's a heck of a lot harder to stay on top than it is to get there.