An entomologist is not a bug.

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

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

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

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.

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.

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