“We live in an age in which ideas, important ideas, are worn like articles of fashion.”
—Tom Wolfe
"To strive, to seek, to find, and to never yield"
—Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
poem Ulysses, Inspector Morse's motto
“Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.”
– Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds ... they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."
—Charles McKay (1814-1889)