It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Jazz is the music of the body.

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.