The game is won or lost on hundreds of small details.

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.

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.

In the process of looking at broken paths, we often forget the lights that illuminates that path.

I look up to as God every person, thing or thought that makes life worth living one day longer

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.

When you cannot achieve a majority, it's a good idea to get rid of minority stakes.

The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.

A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination.

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.