In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public.

I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.