Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

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.

A functioning police state needs no police.

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.

Life is a vacation from two eternities.

Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another.