Jack
real ease orthodoxy
How to know, oh how to know! All is relative ease and facility in orthodoxy, yet how can it be denied that good is in itself undeniable? Absolutes are the most uncertain of all formulations, while the uncertainties are the most real...
would-be minstrels maidens
If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.
latin writing doctors
The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.
enemy
Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
men air eggs
What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.
real mean civilization
You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things.
airplane automobile
I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.
office
I never worked in an office in my life.
writing sells felt
I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
book writing done
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
jobs inspection has-beens
But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
stories environment reader
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
carpenter
As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
spiritual suffering rage
I suffer from a spiritual malaise which manifests itself in outbursts of vicious rage.