When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
