I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.

Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm choosy about what I want - in this case, enlightenment or peace, instead or money or prestige or game or any of those things, doesn't mean I'm not as egotistical and self-seeking as everybody else. If anything, I'm more so!

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you’re with some girl that really knocks you out.