Michael Krauszer

“In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.”
― St. Augustine

“Look for the clutter in your writing and prune it ruthlessly. Be grateful for everything you can throw away. Reexamine each sentence you put on paper. Is every word doing new work? Can any thought be expressed with more economy? Is anything pompous or pretentious or faddish? Are you hanging on to something useless just because you think it's beautiful?...Simplify, simplify.”
― William Zinsser

“The doctors agreed: He was going crazy...they didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was going to pieces because his father had thrown him into the deep end of the Y.M.C.A swimming pool when he was a little boy, and had then taken him to the rim of the Grand Canyon.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions