You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's an active disengagement.

Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

The cat required far less attendance than a human child, which is one of the reasons why spinster ladies prefer felines to babies.

It's a cakewalk, when you know how.

You can't force yourself to be something you are not.

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

There have been so many nations around the world that have had female leaders, including India.

Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.

The doll had an adult shaped body, the thing that I had been trying to describe for years, and our guys said it couldn't be done.

Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva?