"A man writes to throw off the poison he has accumulated because
of his false way of life. He is trying to re-capture his innocence,
yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world
with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on
paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in." --
Henry Miller, Sexus [found via
nebris,
who quoted
it earlier.]