Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and light.

Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident.

The only difference between him and a lion is that a lion does not laugh.

The chair in the police station was uncomfortable and I couldn’t sit in it. It was a cheap looking chair in a cheap looking room meant for people who are wrong.