All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
“I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.”
“I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither 'good' or 'bad', and who knows neither love nor hatred.”