You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.

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 am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them.

The closer you are to God, the farther you are from the devil.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

Maybe the new me will be different.

My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.

You obtain God only when you get rid of the notion of separateness from God.

You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

We will never move out of the present and into the future with all God has planned for us if we cling to dwell in the past.

You do it to yourself, you do, And that's what really hurts, Is that you do it to yourself, Just you and no one else, You do it to yourself...