A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.

[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other things I didn't have or didn't happen and so on.

You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'

What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction, which you might say echoed the thinking of, well, any generation you care to name, including the present one. But we didn't set out on bits of paper that we were going to be the voice of a generation. The original aim of the Rolling Stones was to play blues. It wasn't even to play rock music.

Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.