"I would prefer as friend a good..." - Quote by Euripides

“Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.”

“Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.”

“Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?”

“Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.”

“When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.”

“Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.”

“The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.”

“A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions”

“The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.”