Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything?

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.