The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

I like criticism, but it must be my way.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

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