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

Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?

Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it.

What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.