I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!

If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.

I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.

Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know.

The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.

Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then.

The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction.

Every moment - something beautiful happens.

Washington newspaper men know everything.

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

When you've finished using a car, put the f***ing seat back, so humans can use it afterwards.

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

My children love me. I'm like the mother they never had.

I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.

War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.