“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”

"Thoughts of a Free Thinker", commencement address, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (26 May 1974)
Palm Sunday (1981)
Context: What we will be seeking … for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity.

Charlie Rose interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-LCdcdShdY, 2016

7:87
Variant translation: What cannot be cured by medicaments is cured by the knife, what the knife cannot cure is cured with the searing iron, and whatever this cannot cure must be considered incurable.
Aphorisms

Quoting from Estes Kefauver
Misattributed

Source: Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels

10
73 poems (1963)

1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)