“She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.”

And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won’t last.

You have to transmit to them what its like being in the theater.

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater.

You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.

This man [Barack Obama] does not have the interests of our country. That’s not his agenda. His agenda is to bring us down to a third-world country.

For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.

If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.

It comes down to this: either you control money, or it controls you. To control money, you must manage it.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.