When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk - real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.

As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.

It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.

And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.

And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.