“Good prose is like a windowpane.”
“Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.”
“A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.”
“A page of good prose remains invincible.”
“For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.”
“Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.”