The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

Any damn fool can be spontaneous.

America is a lunatic asylum.

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.