Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.

The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

But friendship is the breathing rose with sweets in every fold.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.