Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.

How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it’s not easy.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

It's not so bad for politicians and Pulitzer Prize poets and certain intellectuals in this country to sign petitions and speak out against the war in Vietnam, but when Cassius Clay did it he paid a heavy price for Freedom of Speech.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.