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.

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

An entomologist is not a bug.

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.