[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

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

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.