The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole of creation, shaking my fist, sputtering, growing even eloquent at times, and then-poof! I am gone. Swept off once and for all. I think that is very, very funny.
Charles SimicThe stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence.
Charles SimicHere is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.
Charles Simic