No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.
It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
In loquaciousness lay insanity.
There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.
Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
The time and thought which most persons waste in aimless effort would accomplish wonders if properly directed with some special object in view. In order to do this, it is necessary to center your mental force upon a specific thought and hold it there, to the exclusion of all other thoughts.