I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

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.

To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

My country tears of thee.

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

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.