Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.

Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.

I am on the side of pluralistic societies, and I will do whatever I can - by the best means available and any means necessary - to protect spaces that encourage open communication between people.

Influence people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.

FUN + Learning = The Best Educational Experience

Rita has spent her whole life being chased by boys. Because of that, she never had a chance to stop running long enough to figure out who she was and what kind of guy she should let catch her.

I am Butler. Anything I say sounds scary.

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord.

I breastfed Sophie for 14 months and Nicolas for 11 months.

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. It's like you're not going to hang out with these people anymore, and that's bad enough.

But for fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye.... Get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And remember to feed them. That's about all you need.