"Ars Poetica?"
“The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person…”
As quoted in Perfecting Ourselves : Coordinating Body, Mind, and Spirit (2002) by Aaron Hoopes, p. 64
Posthumous publications
“With confidentiality as the key, men’s groups open the door to men opening their hearts.”
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 286
“Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.”
Source: Bag of Bones
“If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“An attic’s the afterlife of a house,” said Otille, opening the door. “Or so my mother used to say.”
Source: Green Eyes (1984), Chapter 15, p. 201
“A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door — he's the person who opens a door funny.”
John Lewell, "The Art of Chuck Jones: John Lewell Interviews the Veteran Hollywood Animator [1982]," in Animation - Art and Industry, ed. Maureen Furniss (John Libby Publishing Ltd., 2009), 134. Jones was paraphrasing Ed Wynn who was in turn paraphrasing Fred Allen.
Source: “A comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny”, Barry Popik, November 10, 2015, January 7, 2017 http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/a_comic_says_funny_things/,
