“Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company...” — Margo Jefferson Quote

“Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.”

“Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached much as the basically solitary Marianne Moore approached poetry: reading it with a certain contempt for it, Moore said, you could find a place in it for the genuine.”

“Every mind is a clutter of memories, images, inventions and age-old repetitions. It can be a ghetto, too, if a ghetto is a sealed-off, confined place. Or a sanctuary, where one is free to dream and think whatever one wants. For most of us it's both - and a lot more complicated.”

“Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.”

“If Trump wants to serve a second term in the Oval Office, he needs to persuade the same voters who denied him a second term in the first place that he is more than the chaos, confusion and dysfunction of his first term.”

“We're very lucky in England: everything's very structured. But in India you have to deal with chaos, and I think that helps dealing with expectation.”