Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.
Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy
In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.
Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.