The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more

If we had no language we'd have nothing.

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.