My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.

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.

I would rather be wise and than right and ignorant.

We must empower our weak to be strong, and teach our strong to be compassionate. This will open a door to oneness.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The history of economic progress consists of charging a fee for what once was free.

I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

B*tches come and go but friends are for real.

I think we have moved from a shareholder society to a stakeholder society, and that has massive implications.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.