The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

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.

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.

it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd And watched with zealous care No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand - Contempt is Failure's share!

Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.

No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine.

Where love is absent there can be no woman.

He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence of love would come to feel. “Just watch me,” he said.

I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.