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

In my dreams I sleep with everybody.

In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.