Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.

Somebody else's ignorance is bliss.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

I'd never been published when I was young.

What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.

It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.

But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.