At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

[Donald Trump] attitude towards our longest defense alliance and NATO, that we should somehow walk away from it.

People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone's brown skin.

Everybody's family has different values.

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.