Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

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.

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.

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

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

Together, "Light and Knowledge" are Inanimate, Intangible, and Inseparable.

I wish I was a cool guy and could drink coffee black, but I put almond milk and raw cane sugar in it.

we're all wounded in some way, im just tryin to heal!

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

I remember Mom always telling me that all in all in the end the only one you really have is God.

I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.