I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

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

Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.

All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.

The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.

Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.