At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

— Harold Bloom

At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.

— George Orwell

...at some indiscernible moment he sees all of us clearly — every face distinct, like immiscible droplets of water, all of us individuals constituting an interconnected sea of beings.

— David Michael Miller

Authentic leadership is leadership that endures, because it exists as a function of the individual rather than a crowd of borrowed opinions.

— Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy

A world of fully developed individuals is immune to the cult of collectivism.

— Bryant McGill

Be as thou wast wont to be.

— William Shakespeare

Be as thou wast wont to be. See as thou wast wont to see.

— William Shakespeare

Be batty, be traditional, and be proud.

— Fennel Hudson

Because I’m not normal,” I said.“You say that as if it’s a bad thing, Percy. But you don’t realize how important you are.

— Rick Riordan

Becoming me was the greatest creative project of my life.

— Lev Grossman