At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.
“It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.”
“I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.”