To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.

Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.

The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.