There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.
As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.