Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.

Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer.

Lifestyle and livelihood are pivotal moral issues.

Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

Whoever said that one cannot be moral without being religious never had morals in in the first place.

To have no set purpose in one's life is harlotry of the will.

I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials.

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.

Be worried if no one is criticizing you. Your job in life is to ignore the 33% who will never like you and do your best to convince the 33% who don't care either way to join the 33% who love you

Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?