Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

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

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.

I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.