Research And Writing Are Lonely

Leisure Only Means A Chance To Do Other Jobs That Demand Attention.

Lawyers Spend Their Professional Careers Shoveling Smoke.

Certitude Leads To Violence. This Is A Proposition That Has An Easy Application And A Difficult One. The Easy Application Is To Ideoologues, Dogmatists, And Bullies--people Who Think That Their Rigtness Justifies Them In Imposing On Anyone Who Does Not Happen To Suscribe To Their Particular Ideology, Dogma Or Notion Of Turf. If The Conviction Of Rightness Is Powerful Enough, Resistance To It Will Be Met, Sooner Or Later By Force. There Are People Like This In Every Sphere Of Life, And It Is Natural To Feel That The World Would Be A Better Place Without Them!

Every Now And Then A Man's Mind Is Stretched By A New Idea Or Sensation, And Never Shrinks Back To Its Former Dimensions.

There Is One Gratification An Old Author Can Afford A Certain Class Of Critics; That Namely, Of Comparing Him As He Is With What He Was. It Is A Pleasure To Mediocrity To Have Its Superiors Brought Within Range.