But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love.

Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Our planet is poorly equipped for delight. One must snatch gladness from the days that are. In this life it's not difficult to die. To make life is more difficult by far.

If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!

In the church of my heart the choir is on fire

Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spit Magnificent!

I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain.

Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out, like me And become just two lips entirely?

On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.

Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.

Success comes from people (leaders) who are motivated by the change, not who need to be motivated by the change.

Part of my wisdom consists of being a whiz at reminding the dumb, why they should be whizzes, and not just live life to whiz by others.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.

Your range of available choices - right now - is limitless.

I don't regret the decisions or direction I've chosen, but I feel it's important to be self aware.

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

You know when a script is good but you don't have any knowledge how visually it is going to look. When this [Happy Valley] came out and I saw the first episode and thought it was terrific.