I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold.

Now, you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus.