I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

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.

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

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

In essence, all of our words evoke, develop, and bring forth our reality. We always have the power to choose our words and our reality.

There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes.

I can’t describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them.

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

Actors who say they don't watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it's how I research for auditions.

The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.

If you'd offered me a 69 at the start this morning I'd have been all over you!

If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.