What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

Every new time will give its law.

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.