Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

To acquire style, begin by affecting none.

None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right.

Vigorous writing is concise.

Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Let us walk in the path of light

In modern democracies, one is always too few and two are always too many

I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

I think every single American believes they have a right to clean air and clean water.

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

Usually guys with your skill set like to eat bugs; I don't get that dude.

I was as equally influenced by Bergman as I was [low-budget sexploitation filmmaker].

Life happens. Adapt. Embrace change, and make the most of everything that comes your way.

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

Consolation heaps without contact; somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe.