America, why are your libraries full of tears?

The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.

From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

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

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

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.