“And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.”

How many husbands were floating between life and death, clinging to their wives in this world? And how may millions and millions of people were there in the world like Charlie who wouldn’t let go of their loved ones when they’re gone?

There’s a reason for everything, you said, and though it’s a mystery to me now, I know it won’t always be so.

On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting.

That’s death and life, you see. We all shine on. You just have to release your hearts, alert your senses, and pay attention.

That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love.

There’s no such thing as a lost cause.

How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive?

A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice all the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. Qualcuno ti ama. Somebody loves you.

One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It’s the same all over the world.

…like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?

No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.

If they don’t let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.

Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something.

There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.

I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access

Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.