Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.

America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

[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.

The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down ad be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.