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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“That's the detail of the dead woman I always remember: her bare left foot, along with packets of Top Ramen and a torn box of cat food strewn about as plastic bags danced in the wind of passing cars. I always think how, when she left the house that day, the last thing on that woman's mind must have been the possibility of dying on the pavement with dried noodles crowning her head. Maybe if she had paid more attention to detail, like the oncoming car, she would have made it home to feed her cat.”

“When someone gets you hot and bothered, turn on the prayer conditioner.”