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.

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section.

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

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