Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.

If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both.

Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.

The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.

it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible

Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.

We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.

I think I'm in a business where you have to look good, and it's totally youth-oriented.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right

Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

There aren't enough people fighting for being conservative with your sexual tastes. There's a little too much adventuresome stuff going on, so it's good to return to the basics.

The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not.

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.