“It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.”

“There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.”

“The idea of life is to give and receive.”

“Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.”

“Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.”

“I'm sure you've heard people use the term, "You just don't get it." Well, I figured out the 'it' is the point in life. I believe I was supposed to have been there when my father died, but it was a point in life I just didn't get.”

“My aim is to keep this bathroom clean. Your aim will help.”