we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...

Children should be taught how to think and not what to think by equipping them with the weapons of discernment and knowledge.

I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

Tout le sang qui coule rouge; All blood is red.

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes like that in America, because it's just not in the tradition.

Bigger than the Beatles? Well, how many grammys did they win? Exactly, none, yet I have one, and I've never even released a CD.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.