"<p>Whenever I have been attacked and chased - and in the course of a writer's career these chases inevitably recur, sometimes with life-threatening twists and turns - I have found that the writer under attack cannot be protected by any outside help. Not by the powers that be, not by the courts, not by the help of his peers, not even by the voluntary encouragement of well-meaning people and the wisdom of the experienced. The writer is protected only by his works. It is not even the quality of his works, which is always uneven, but the intention that shines through the work of a writer's life. It is this mysterious radiance and power that gives the writer a kind of - relative - inviolability. A writer can only fail if it can be proved that the intention of his work is not sincere. Then the writer and his work commit hara-kiri. Everything else counts for little: neither the accusation nor the defense.</p>"