Why use one word when ten will do?

Michele Broadhurst on Oscar Wilde

So I spend a good deal of time scattered as I prioritize my daily tasks. I do not use a to do list as often as I could but when I feel I have complicated things yet again, I think of my buddy Oscar. The Portrait of Dorian Gray is a great book but it probably could have been fifty pages shorter. My point is I have to stop sometimes and ask myself, “Am I making this harder than it needs to be?”

Eh, maybe he got paid by the word. Maybe I could get paid by the word…….