I've listened to and know Allen Ginsberg music and met him a couple of times, but I don't have any strong statements to make.

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

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

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

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.

Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.

In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling.