I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.

Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.

You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

You don't want to get worse at something.

Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also

I knew a lot of my musicians used to take coke. I never saw them. They would hide it from me, so I wasn't really aware of it. Creatively, I don't think it was that great.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

I know what it's like to pine away for that summer romance you just can't get back.

Dear Marco, how do i unwrite the past, how do i undo the mistakes, how do i unlove you?