Scientist alone is true poet.

The Rolling Stones were an inkling towards an appreciation of the unity of music, dance and words. Any of the black R&B people who had a stage show that involved dancing, music and words did the same thing, except that I thought Jagger's words were good, his music was good and his dancing was good. I spoke to him about Blake and tried to get him to sing [William] Blake's The Grey Monk, to use his words as lyrics. He didn't do it. In the end, I did it myself.

So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'

Things are symbols of themselves.

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.