” Look here, Cranly – he said. –
You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do.
I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my Home, my Fatherland or my Church:
and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use, silence, exile and cunning… “