If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.