The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.

The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.

But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.

Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class.

For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them.

...I've decided ... love is an eternity of slow motion replays ...

If after giving it all that you possibly can, you do lose to the competition, then they really deserve the win.

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

A gun is a liar's weapon

Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how the watch was made.

The itch of scribbling.

The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often women who impact what stories get made.

I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.

Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.