“In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after”

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.

I’ve been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.

I always smoked cigars. I’ve smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

Rich could play way better than Krupa.

It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.

Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.

This year we watched the collapse of Mali, a consequence of the Libyan civil war. The south of Libya and Mali, and Niger too, are well on the way to becoming a no-man’s land. After 9/11,

Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised.

They only go after what they know they can get.

It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.

There is more you can do after you pray.

And when they have done their job, America must look after and honor its veterans.