Friederike

“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche