My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To survive, you must tell stories.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Live a good life. More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.

Harbour love, not hate - don't let it contaminate your heart and conceal your beauty.

I won't say anything that I will regret tomorrow

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

Are all men in disguise except those crying?

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.

Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but it's better than working at Burger King.