As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening

Nothing is real.

I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've never met anybody who had any problem. I've had bad trips, but I've had bad trips in real life. I've had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything.

Before Elvis there was nothing.

I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

I'll give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind