Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure each sentence is at least four words longer or shorter than the one before it.

Think small.... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.

Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.

Never want to say anything so strongly that you give up the option of finding something better. If you have to say it, you will.

...an imagined town is at least as real as an actual town. If it isn't, you may be in the wrong business. Our words come from obsessions we must submit to, whatever the social cost. It can be hard. It can be worse forty years from now if you feel you could have done it and didn't. It is narcissistic, vain, egotistical, unrealistic, selfish, and hateful to assume emotional ownership of a town or a word. It is also essential.

In the world of imagination, all things belong.

I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.