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

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.

I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.

Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.

There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.