This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

Treat yourself like someone who is amazingly special. You are special!

You need to use you imagined view of the future you dream of, then paint the statement in words, to state that clear dream of your desired future.

Fantasies... who needs fantasies? I have memories.

I ride my bike, I work out, I do a bit of, er, dancey things.

It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.

Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.