If you can't do it, give up!
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss
I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.
I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.
words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
There is no greater evil than anarchy.
Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
A human being is only breath and shadow.
To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
Those swift to think are not always secure.
The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.
There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness
I've had a lot of operations. I'm kind of like Franken-actor.
Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.