All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would ra…

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.