Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.

Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.

Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent, It only can be squandered.

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.

Through understanding of God way's of grace, a man find grace to turn away from evil.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.

It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies.

Every other group helps its own members. Women should, too. Be sisters.

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.

When pressure builds up, don't panic. Pray! Prayer is a tremendous stress reliever. It can be your safety valve.