Okay, so this isn't a direct quote, but it's one of my new favorites, so forgive the paraphrase.
At Ilkley literature festival, a woman shrieked and vomited during a Ted Hughes reading. I must say, I’ve never felt like shrieking.
--Philip Larkin to Robert Conquest, 15 June, 1975
A woman shrieked and puked while Hughes was reading;
That’s odd, because I’ve never felt like shrieking,
Not even when my tortured ears were bleeding
And all around, the vomit stench was reeking,
I hardly ever, once, have felt like shrieking.
Frank
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-- Frank
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