“It wasn't long after the discovery of modern anesthesia that people began to die of it.”

“reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave ...”

“SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.”

“The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.”

“Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.”

“It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”