The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.