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

All these books are published in Heaven.

What is obscenity? And to whom?

You can't photograph everything.

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

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.