Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.

Who’ll come lie down in the dark with me Belly to belly and knee to knee Who’ll look into my hooded eye Who’ll lie down under my darkened thigh?

We love to be hurt and we love to have our unhealing wounds opened and reopened again: we sit staring in the mirror of art, fascinated by our own deformities.

America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

Subject is known by what she sees.

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.