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?

The parts that embarrass you the most are usually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest, the goofiest, the strangest and most eccentric and at the same time, most representative, most universal... That was something I earned from Kerouac, which was that spontaneous writing could be embarrassing... The cure for that is to write the thing down which you will not publish and which you won't show people. To write secretly... so you can actually be free to say anything you want.

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

what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination

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

War is good business Invest your son

in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night