You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?