You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.
~ Aristophanes
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.
~ Edith Sitwell
