You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.

I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.

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

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.