A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography.

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting.

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.