The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour.

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.