"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."
"Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about."
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Source: Scars on the Soul. Book by Françoise Sagan, translated by Joanna Kilmartin, 1974.
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