The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

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.

That Love is Supreme which is above all the attributes of a Person.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

There is a great deal to be saidFor being dead.

If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

The most important part of ourselves is the mind and it has been rather inaccessible.

You guys are more talented than anyone in the Tumblr office or in Palo Alto or Sunnyvale. We're constantly in awe, constantly in service.

Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.

I know for sure that nothing matters.