Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.

In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.

Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then.

I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.

(on the portrayal of women in literature) Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree

...it's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch.

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.

When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.

I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from.

If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.