I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.

Kill the body and the head will die.

We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.