Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.

I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are

It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that if one day a year were devoted to it, everybody could get it out of the way and the rest of the year would be safe and free. In this manner he instituted National Suicide Day.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

New York is the last true city.

I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.

I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can feel the heartbeat; it's about some situation that concerns human beings under duress. It's suggesting a solution, or just acknowledging that [the situation] exists. Art does that.