I was given an opportunity to join the marines instead of go to jail - and I think I made the correct decision.

Everybody who wants to be in a band should be made to join the marines.

The marines gave me an eternal discipline.

Sufism, " according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure.

Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.

Don't make the Divine a nincompoop's idea, of being a man-like entity. What you see here is merely a wandering whirlwind of Infinity.

Leaves like rusty tin for the desolate mind that has seen the end- the barest glimmerings. Leaves aswirl with gulls made wild by winter.

The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations.

Does fashion matter? Always - though not quite as much after death.

All children are my children.

If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.

We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.

But why?" "You heard the pay, right? And also, to be near you." Thumbing a tear from my cheek, he added, "Mostly, to be near you.