All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.