The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.

In any operation, what you have to do is to persuade the patient to grant access to the patient's energy. The purest form of that is when you're trying to help a woman through labor: when you're saying, 'Push, push!' and you're rhythmically with the woman.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

It seems to me that the the portrayal of a minority in a position of authority, but without the substance of authority in fact is an image of the black person ... in his or her relationship to society at present,

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't.