One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

Easy writing makes hard reading.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.