You have to write the book that wants to be written.
If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.
Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.
And joy is always a promise.
We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!