"Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else. Toms can be Dicks and Dicks can be Harrys, but none of them can ever be you. There's the artist responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth. If you can take it, take it - and be. If you can't, cheer up, go about other people's business; and do (or undo) till you drop."
- e. e. cummings / i six nonlectures