A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap.

I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them.

It's still the same old story, A fight for love and glory, A case of do or die! The world will always welcome lovers As time goes by.

I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.

I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.

It's best to let her go," he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.

People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.