If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that’s fine; you only need to get it right once.

I don’t have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It’s not a scientific thing.

The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.

The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a patient to get rid of whatever is ailing him

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.