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

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 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.

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

When you get to the junction of double mindedness in purposefulness, remember the will of God.

Live is like a river in which you merge. When you struggle against the current, you suffer. When you flow with the current in a smooth and fluid experience, life becomes effortless and joyful.

Kingdom laws are the same for everyone

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

I know about women. I know that they're not men.

I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.

A long headline that really says something is more effective than a brief heading that says nothing.

It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.