The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable to no one.
The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first—a process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
When someone tells you about the peak year of human history, the period of time when things were good before things went downhill, it will always be the years of when they were 10 years sold — which is the peak of any human’s existence.