"The arts are only viable and only justifiable if they serve values that are neither economic nor political. Their real contributions to society have nothing to do with paying taxes or creating jobs or providing propaganda for causes like national unity. They have their justification in irradiating our lives by the gifts of the imagination.
- George Woodcock in "Jackals' Dream" in The Bumper Book, p. 51 (Noted Sept. 19, 1993)