Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an original.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast.

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

I used to drink Coke all the time. It was so good. It gives you a lot of energy.

The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.

The fact is that the Vietnamese held Americans after 1973.

A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.

I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.

I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.

You're always looking for some new way to tell the same story, but it's how they get to the happy end that is the challenge and the fun for a writer.

This bridge will take you halfway there - the last few steps you will have to take yourself.