“The Difference between Writers and Editors.Writers are creative using one end of a pencil.Editors are more adept using the opposite end.”

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

“- the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends.”

“So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends. ”

“What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?”

“As though you could use violent, unjust means and achieve peace and justice! Means determine ends; and must be like the ends proposed. Means intrinsically different from the ends proposed achieve ends like themselves, not like those they were meant to achieve.”