I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.
“I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.”
“I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.”