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

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.

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

A story meant to motivate all and sundry irrespective of their circumstances

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Simplicity is efficient.

Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.

That's when you know you know somebody. When you know every piece of clothing they have in their wardrobe. That's friendship.

When people try to stop free speech, stop people from talking, it creates pressure in the system that might cause people to act out.

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

I'm not the most loved person on the planet. People assume they understand who I am by what I do.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

When I retire, I wanna be able to just lay back. Only way to make it happen is to be investing my money, not spending it.