"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, 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." "Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited." "My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I’m not kidding." More In Death "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."― Marcus Aurelius "My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn’t a Christian, she would stomp you to death."― Dick Gregory "If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy."― Thomas Aquinas