Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

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.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Having fun while learning feels like playing a game.

You can't miss the horror, every moment it’s interesting.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

tell me what you think it means.

The entrepreneurial opportunity in America is alive and well.

Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.