“I love you. You are the object of my affection and the object of my sentence.”

“...passive voice is better than writing out a humongous number and taking the risk that your readers' brains will be numb by the time they get to the verb.”

“An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.”

“If all the world's a stage, then it's missing a few planks.”

“Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.”

“I tell you this, and I tell you plainWhat you have done, you will do againYou will bite your tongue, careful or notUpon the already-bitten spot”

“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”