There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred jealousy boastfulness disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words it is war minus the shooting.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out where in my writing I might go next.