Things are symbols of themselves.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

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

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

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.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.