My loneliness is a choice, not a situation.

But now, I am addicted to the peace and calm of being alone. There is something so soothing about solitude that I have no urgent wish to give it up and connect with people.

Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future.

It's not perfection that makes you beautiful, It's your imperfections

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.

Youth culture adopts Armani and adapts it in its own way, as befits youthful enthusiasm.

Sure, I didn't weigh a hundred and ten pounds , but my narrow waist let me bend and I could break a man's neck with my kick.

...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world.