“Cindy Sheehan is a tragedy slut.”

“Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.”

“Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.”

“You can’t pay for tragedy with more tragedy, or draw life from death.” “I”

“A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.”

“Farce may often border on tragedy; indeed, farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.”

“To me, tragedy is if I'll cut my finger, that's tragedy…Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die.”

“None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”

“Tragedy alters everything.”

“The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.”