a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job! And five nose running brats in love with Batman

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.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong

Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country

It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.

See me once with loveMake me alive.

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

If we look at the world with a deluded body and mind, we will think that our self is permanent. But if we practice correctly and return to our true self, we will realize that nothing is permanent

What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good?

Teaching people the best way to market organically with Facebook, is like teaching them the best way to butter bread, with a spoon.

Excess always carries its own retribution.