Who said “The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails,…”?

“America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.”

“The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.”

“One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.”

“To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.”

“I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.”

“Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”

“Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.”

“Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.”

“There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.”

“Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.”

“Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.”