“The free-lance writer is one who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.”
“A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.”
“The word 'free-lance', I used to think, had a romantic ring; but sadly discovered, when I tried to be one, that its practice has little freedom, and the lance is a sorry weapon to tilt at literary windmills.”
“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
“I saw the patterns of history and thought that a human might be eighty per cent chemicals, eighteen per cent his past, and two per cent feeling, creatures of habit. Which makes psychiatrists really pharmacists who have to listen longer.”
“It seems that we had...not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.”