" . . . the ones who felt life too intensely to bear living it . . . To be a poet, to be an artist, meant more than writing or painting or singing; it meant having a vision and the courage to see that vision through, despite any opposition. What didn't kill you made you stronger, and if you had what it took, you were rare and wondrous, and if you didn't, it couldn't be faked."

Introduction to the revised edition of No One Here Gets Out Alive

by DANNY SUGERMAN