Writing is a mentally difficult thing — it’s hard to know when something’s worth saying; it’s hard to be clear; it’s hard to arrange things in a way that will hold a reader’s attention; it’s hard to sound good; it’s even hard to know whether, when you change something, you’re making it better.

— James Somers

e.a. nakashima as quoted by Rachel Myers:

It’s like even though I went to prep school, I’m still gangster.

… basically it’s a story about how unpleasant it is to be lost.

— Steve Krug, summarizing Hansel and Gretel

A secret is something you can only tell one person … at a time.

— Allen Ginsberg

George Orwell:

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

Ernest Hemingway:

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Drew Hoolhorst describes the type of person you might find living in San Francisco’s famously gay Castro neighborhood:

Tons of “not Republicans.”

Well fucking said, Drew.