Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

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.

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.

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

Just as we are, we come to Christ Jesus, He will change us to his image.

It's not the best life in the world, but it's all I know.

Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

There's something very full in knowing that your partner accepts you as is.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

In my life, I've been a movie star, a rock star, and a sports star, all wrapped up into one-and worked harder at it than anybody else.

I'll tell you what makes my blood boil?... Crematoriums.

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.