Pure nonsense is a joy forever, as Keats didn't quite say. I love to see a writer flying high, just for the hell of it. - William Zinsser

I thought of how often the act of writing even the simplest document — a letter, for instance — had clarified my half-formed ideas. Writing and thinking and learning were the same process.

I like Catch-22, Gravity’s Rainbow and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, for instance, because the authors of those three surrealistic novels — Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon and Robert Pirsig — invented their own rules, knowing that the old ones wouldn’t do the job they had in mind.

I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of.