Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.

It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

We agreed to love each other madly.

Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is ‘success’, the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.