A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

If you feel that you can solve others problems, then please, work little more on your own problems and solve them first.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.

She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.