I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.