Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations.

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.