"Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught."

“Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail.”

“It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity...”

“It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.”

“I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.”

“I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sadao Watanabe.”

Source : "The Energy Is One: An Interview With Hiromi Uehara". Interview with Wayne Zade, www.allaboutjazz.com. October 20, 2003.

“I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults,”

“In the dark, all cats are black.”

“the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

Source : Charles Bukowski (1972). “Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness”