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

Good things happen to those who hustle.

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.

With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.

I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.

I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.