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.

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.

No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen.

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.