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

...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!

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

To acquire style, begin by affecting none.

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.

If someone asked you what color the sky is, what would you say?

As Daffy once said, the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera.

They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

I never felt I could be a complete professional without having won the British Open. It was something you had to do to complete your career.

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun.

Me and Bianca [Stewart] would go to thrift stores like the Salvation Army. We'd pick up dope stuff no one ever heard of. But we'd put it together in ways that would work and be different.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.