The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

Simplicity is always a virtue.

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.