A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis.

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.

In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is, where the speaker would pause for emphasis, or take a breath. The best test for locating an attributive is to speak the sentence aloud.