A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
Metaphor is embodied in language.
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?