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“There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.”
Source : "The Honeymooner". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014. 
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“No one was ever good enough for anybody's precious sons. No one ever called daughters precious, and why was that? Things had not changed very much. In the end women like Emily and Ingrid and Freya and Joanna only had one another to lean on. The men were wonderful when they were around, but their fires burned too bright, they lived too close to the sun - look what happened to her boy, and to her man. Gone. Women only had one another in the end.”
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“Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.”
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“A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.”
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“I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.”
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“And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.”
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“Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything”
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“It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.”
Source : 1965 Of trumpeter Bubber Miley.'The Most Essential Instrument', in Jazz Journal, Dec.
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“There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.”
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“And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.”
Source : Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.813, Library of Alexandria
