Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?

Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.