In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

In a state of anomie, the absence of justice becomes the panacea for justice

What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn't always become common.

Genius is eternal patience.

Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.

I am looking forward to seeing my buddy Colin represent in front of Pacino. That's sweet.

Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.