“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.”

“Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness.”

“There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.”

“My mother, for instance, thought-or rather, knew-that it was dangerous to drive an automobile without gasoline: it fried the valves, or something. 'Now don't you dare drive all over town without gasoline!' she would say to us when we started off" (31).”

“But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?”

“For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.”

“She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.”