You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.