My love for the band is still there. It hasn’t changed, maybe that’s why it’s so painful these days.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

[The New York Times] don’t write good. They have people over there, like Maggie Haberman and others, they don’t – they don’t write good. They don’t know how to write good.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.

I’m not a God, I make mistakes.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn’t allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

The Thirteenth Amendment formally ended slavery, but a decade later “slavery by another name” (also the title of an important study by Douglas A. Blackmon) was introduced. Black life was criminalized by overly harsh codes that targeted black people.

You show your worth by what you seek! – Rumi

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it’s in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

My life comes to a screeching halt when I’m not making movies. I really like to ride my bike around town, garden, cook, and play ultimate frisbee.

I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

I think if this country gets any kinder or gentler, it’s literally going to cease to exist.