This was the kind of kiss you remembered when you were a very old lady with a very poor memory.

our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!

I am the young, edgy New Yorker.

You have dreamed me into your dream to awaken you from the dreams of life, death and separativity.

Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.

you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.

My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good.

Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.

Big time players make big time plays in big time games.