I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.

I have made love to ten thousand women.

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.