Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.