The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

Jazz is the music of the body.

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