Brent Simmons quotes John Donne: (with the antiquated spelling intact)

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesser… Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am invovled in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.