Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.

More always means worse.