"Perfection is attained, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

When asked how long he needed to prepare a speech, Woodrow Wilson replied: “If it is a ten-minute speech, it takes me all of two weeks to prepare it; if it is a half-hour speech, it takes me a week; if I can talk as long as I want to, it requires no preparation at all. I am ready now.”

Brevity is the hardest work in writing.