Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

Trouble follows me wherever I go. Thing I'm in is just a sack o'woe.

Mike Vax plays trumpet the way you have to play in order to hold down the lead chair with Stan Kenton.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

A man got to have a code. - Omar Little

Thou hast no right but to do thy will... For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

I think some of the scariest people I've met in my life have been some of the sweetest.

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.

It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

He must be lightning slow.

If we were good at everything we would have no need for each other.