For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.
The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.
It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.
The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.
It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.