Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent and his invincible love of music to the fore every time he played. There are many other things connected to society and ethnicity that are often mentioned in a discussion of Benny Goodman but all of them are connected to his overwhelming affection for the art of the music and the fairness it should be allowed to express.

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.