Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

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

I've got enough money to live where I want, but I don't want to move.Go out and have sexual adventures in Burma.

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.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Sometime I’ll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.