I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.

If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?

The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

The word vegetarian, I think, does a disservice because there are a lot of people who care but maybe don't care, or can't care in an ultimate way. If you think about environmentalism, nobody would ask, "Are you an environmentalist or not?" The question doesn't make any sense.

Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.

One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second