Unmediated joy was nowadays unfashionable.
Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.
It doesn't give me displeasure to hear of a virgin being raped. The lot of women is to be fornicated.
It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.
Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.
Communication is the root of marital success from which a strong union can grow, and noncommunicatio n is the rock on which the ship will bash out her keel.
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When you're ready, pick it up and read it, as if you've never read it before. If there are things you aren't satisfied with as a reader, go in and fix them as a writer: that's revision.
I was in orchestra in high school, but I really started when a friend of mine who's a drummer showed me some things. I was always just really fascinated with drums, it was the instrument I was always drawn towards. My ear sort of went to rhythmic aspects of music and songs. But he really was the beginning point of starting me on drum sets; like I said, I was in the orchestra first and I was playing orchestral snare and mallet instruments first.
It's not sufficient in the internet age to communicate through the media; you have to be able to do it on the ground, door by door, coffee shop by coffee shop, shop floor by shop floor. You really have to do that as well.