Sons of suicides seldom do well.

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.