Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Life is never just in your own hands ...

Be robust enough to work more than a robot!

Jealousy is a general human behavior, Until it's not changed.

We were what seemed important then, not some label.

We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.

All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?

You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.

I don't want to open my mouth or speak anymore, because everything I say becomes scandalous. It wears you out.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.