Everyone has the same amount of hours per day, it’s not that you don’t have enough time, it’s that you don’t have a clear focus

The person you are sleeping with signifies the value upon which you have for yourself. You are attracted to who echoes your deepest thoughts of yourself

The person you are sleeping with signifies the value upon which you have for yourself. You are attracted to who reflects your deepest vision of yourself

In every relationship one must sacrifice to show thy love. Are you willing to make sacrifices for someone you love?

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

I write at all different times. I write in my bed, I write at the table. I need to get it together. I'm working on a book and working, and just jam it in whenever it makes sense.

Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.

I'm not apologizing to anyone. I'll apologize when hell freezes over.