All Quotes

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. ”

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. ”

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. ”

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong. ”

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ”

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ”

There are plenty of people on Earth. It's not like the human race is going to disappear if a few people don't come back. Exploration is dangerous. ”

Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that. ”

Cave divers, of course, deal with an elevated level of risk, and the most that I can say here is that we tend to conduct our work at the bottom of a deep cave on an extremely conservative basis with heavy levels of backup equipment and a policy to abort if any single person doesn't like the situation underwater at any time during the mission. ”

This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more. ”