Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.

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

Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

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.

We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.

My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.