True lit?

"True literature can only exist when it is created, not by diligent and reliable officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and sceptics."

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Well that's some consolation, I suppose. Except that I am diligent and reliable dammit. Why cannot a madman/women, hermit, heretic, dreamer, rebel or skeptic be diligent and reliable. It's a sense of responsibility to conscience that motivates the ardent. Darn it Zamyatin, I don't know what the heck kind of blogger you think you are but I'm having my cake.