The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American jazz and its offshoots. What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

Science is magic that works.