Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.

Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.

It means that the things that make us human often make us ill.

The world can't die. Many generations have thought the world was dying. But it was only their world which was dying.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.

what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

I'd rather be called a N*gger than a Slave.

Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.

If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat.