... And no one is freer than a person with no moral beliefs. "One of the ways of surrendering freedom is to actually have convictions," Franzen says, "And a way of further surrendering freedom is to spend quite a bit of time acting on those convictions."
... There is something beyond freedom that people need: work, love, belief in something, commitment to something. Freedom is not enough. It's necessary but not sufficient. It's what you do with freedom -- what you give it up for -- that matters."
... i came to realize that because my purpose on earth seems to be to write novels, i am actually freer when i'm chained to a project: freer from guilt, anxiety, boredom, anger, purposelessness."
TIME, Aug 23, 2010
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