Nobody interested in culture can afford to be impartial now. Culture must take sides and turn militant, or it is bound to perish.
-Sherrill Tippins, "February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn"

"It was said of him that he had once been for a short time in Bedlam; they had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet."

-- from "The Man Who Laughs" by Victor Hugo