The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.
Introspection is a devouring monster.
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.