If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.

Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.