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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

I’ve always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans – the original Americans.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.