Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what he is noticing, continuous alertness to catch himself thinking or seeing, devotional attentiveness to the world he's moving through.

Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.