That's The Great Danger Of Sectarian Opinions,

Three Words That Still Have Meaning, That I Think We Can Apply To All Professional Writing, Are Discovery, Originality, Invention.the Professional Writer Discovers Some Aspect Of The World And Invents Out Of The Speech Of His Time Some Particularly Apt And Original Way Of Putting It Down On Paper.

Men Who Have Lost Their Conviction Of What Is Good And What Is Bad Find Themselves Without A Sextant To Check Their Position By. We Are In The Position Of A Man With An Elaborate Camping Kit Who Finds Himself Lost In The Woods Without His Matches; To Kindle A Fire He Has To Resort To The Stratagems Of The Caveman. We Fall Back Through Generations Into The Oldest Terrors And Confusions Of The Race.

But What's The Good Of Freedom? What Can You Do With It? What One Wants Is To Live Well And Have A Beautiful House And Be Respected By People.

The People Of The United States Have Been Fortunate In Many Things. One Of The Things In Which We Have Been Most Fortunate Has Been That So Far, Due Perhaps To Certain Basic Virtues In Our Traditional Ways Of Doing Things, We Have Managed To Keep The Crisis Of Western Civilization, Which Has Devastated The Rest Of The World And In Which We Are As Much Involved As Anybody, More Or Less At Arm's Length.

Mealtime's The Only Time I Get To Devote To The Things Of The Spirit.