If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.

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.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Until you die .. it's all life.

We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.