Be grateful for every word you can cut.

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.

Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the logical arrangement of thought. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly---about any subject at all.

Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish.

Editors are licensed to be curious.

Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.