UGH. Boys. They're like French class--no matter how much I study, I'll never be fluent in the language.

For the sake of your health and happiness, replace the loss that causes sadness with the thanks that yields gratitude.

I always wanted to be a Sixer. My dad was a Sixers' fan. I never wanted to leave. I wanted to start my career in Philly and finish it here.

Anything on paper is obsolete!

And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . .

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

If you don't love your mother you go straight to hell.

People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won't happen for me. I won't survive you, Eva.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

I do not believe in hypocrisy.