"Some of Mr. Gregory's poems have merely appeared in The New Yorker ; others are New Yorker poems: the inclusive topicality, the informed and casual smartness, the flat fashionable irony, meaningless because it proceeds from a frame of reference whose amorphous superiority is the most definite thing about it they are the trademark not simply of a magazine but of a class."

-- Randall Jarrell

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“Thanks to these eyes...I came to understand how cruel and despicable people can be. But that also allowed me to appreciate true beauty. All you have to do is appreciate things from a different perspective Once I realized the things we take for granted are really miracles, I came to see everything in it's precious, empheral beauty. ..... I love this world.”
“And right action is freedom From past and future also.”
“Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.”
“I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.”
“It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.”

Source : Reader's Digest December 1961
“I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'”
“I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.”
“The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.”

Source : "Enjoying life on 'the list'" by Giles Hardie, www.smh.com.au. April 13, 2012.

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