Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.