I finally made it back home this weekend and stole Ellison's Invisible Man from the shelves so I could finally actually read this book in honor of banned books.
“You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman...
'You never can tell...' he answered.
'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly.
'I protest!' said Behemoth hotly, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
--The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov