We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

Love is touching souls.

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.