Commencement Quote by David Foster Wallace

“Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.” This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting…

— David Foster Wallace

Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting…

— David Foster Wallace

What really surprised me was that more than half of all deaths by gunshot are suicides, more than 20,000 a year, about 58 a day.

— Steven Petrow

“Emotionally, it's better to be homicidal than suicidal. When you're upset with a guy, at least know which way to point the gun.”

— Kim Gruenenfelder

“They say that people standing on a height have an impulse to throw themselves down. I imagine that many suicides and murders have been…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I don't think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to…

— Lina Wertmuller

“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. Not at…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“SUICIDE can be considered an act of MURDER committed on ONESELF”

— Kamil Ali

“We can argue all we want about how different guns were in the 1790s, when it took a minute to fire three shots, and…

— Kurt Andersen

More people use guns to kill themselves than to kill others.

— Steven Petrow

“My family would never approve of me firing a gun. They would say that guns are used for self-defense, if not violence, and therefore…

— Veronica Roth

“When I came here as a child, he would always remove the bullets as soon as he walked in the door. I guess he…

— Stephenie Meyer