There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

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

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

I been away a long time.

Then the trembling starts to get worse. This must be how they begin, he thinks. Freak-outs. Breakdowns. Crack-ups. Eventually shut-ins and finally cross-offs. But first the cover-up . . .

Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.

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