"The religion and it's many barbed indoctrinating tendrils just start to become what makes you who you are, so you have to kind of destroy yourself to be able to rebuild yourself and make yourself whole again."

“reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing.”

“Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.”

Source : Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

“pretense is the oil that lubricates society.”

“I mean, it's pretty hard to fight and hate and be angry when you're making music, isn't it?”

“I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.”

“I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.”

“The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.”

“Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.”