If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both.

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

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.

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant

They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.