destruction is ultimately self-destruction.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Will you come down and kiss me good night?
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.