Whoever wants to live and enjoy his life today must not be like you and me. Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours . . .

-- Hermann Hesse

(Steppenwolf,

translated by Basil Creighton,

revised by Joseph Mileck and Horst Frenz)