Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.

I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac].

I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I never quite saw it.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.

The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.