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

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.

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.

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

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.

Anger has strength, hate has might, but love has power.

Memory is sweet.Even when it's painful, memory is sweet.

Abbey relaxed, grateful not only that someone had thought to throw a party for her, but that she had been able to escape attending.

Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers.

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

Winters with strong frost and lots of snow like we had 20 years ago will cease to exist at our latitudes.

With each new character, I find something new about myself that I didn't know before.

Sesame Street... I think they were all high. With Big Bird, they had to be high.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.