I don't like Paradise,
As they probably don't have obsessions there.

La miglior vendetta? La felicità. Non c'è niente che faccia più impazzire la gente che vederti felice.

Spazio

Spazio spazio, io voglio, tanto spazio
per dolcissima muovermi ferita:
voglio spazio per cantare crescere
errare e saltare il fosso
della divina sapienza.
Spazio datemi spazio
ch’io lanci un urlo inumano,
quell’urlo di silenzio negli anni
che ho toccato con mano.

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people…

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?

He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different world, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven.