All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.

No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.

Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.