If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
Victor Hugo
It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man’s proper stature – and that the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning – and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me […] that they will betray: it is their own souls.
Ayn Rand, New York – May 1968