"I’d been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches." ― Harry Mathews Topic(s): Death More From Harry Mathews "Well, I had this little notion – I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence." "Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they’re saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest." "My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I’m not kidding." More In Death "Death is inevitable, but Life – that’s the tricky bit where things happen."― Simon Travaglia "Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."― Tennessee Williams "I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand."― Benjamin Franklin