The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.
You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.
Art is man determined to die sane.
Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.