“and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it.”
“Baby? I am not a baby.”“No, I know. It’s…a term of endearment. It’s like ‘honey’ or ‘sweetie’. It just means I love you.”“If you say so, but it is strange, to call the woman you love as a baby. But then, Americans are strange.”
“Being called baby: like safaris and bowling leagues, a phenomenon she never thought she'd experience first hand.”
“I want you to love me like my dog does, baby.”
“the grace is being able to like rock music,symphony music, jazz …anything that contains the original energy ofjoy.”
“The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with him, but truthfully I would rather listen to retarded children pounding on pan lids with wooden spoons.”