"If my life means anything, it is that I am always forgetting just what it is that I want. How’s that for meaning? I have found a way to be unsatisfied by everything, and always somewhat pleasantly excited. I want to know who has ever found anything as wonderful as being a strain...held tight between two eternities. You would think I wanted to die, if you didn’t know me better. It is more that in truth I would like to vanish . . . You always think I am kidding. I am trying to define happiness by what I have actually got and go on from there."

- Kenneth Koch