Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.

I been away a long time.

His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.

When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.