For a while, Fast enjoyed expressing his antiwar convictions in a newspaper column. It was for the local newspaper in Greenwich Conn., which means the wealthiest audience in the world. It was way over to the left of Gorbachev, saying everything I wanted to say, and the people there loved it they were rich enough not to be bothered by it. But I found I couldn't do anything else, because I spent the whole week figuring out what I was going to write in the column. I'm putting together a couple of things now, but I'm not to the point where I can outline it and know where I'm going.
Writing is easy, but figuring it out is very hard.
And yet it's not enough, because to learn an art properly is more than a lifetime. We get old too quick and smart too slow.