"Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people w..." — Edward Albee

That's all that counts. People being sorry. Makes you feel better; gives you a sense of dignity, and that's all that's important; a sense of dignity. And it doesn't matter if you don't care or not, either. You got to have a sense of dignity, even if you don't care, 'cause, if you don't have that, civilization's doomed.

My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel.

It's a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell.

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.