Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the moment. '. . . A question of the moment is, indeed, a substitute for some notion, such as the idea of God, or hereditary monarchy, or national glory, that has hitherto acted as a symbol of human co-ordination. It provides no new positive certainty to replace the discredited certainty, but is what the name implies: the raising of a question which the old certainty no longer answers.
Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.