The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible

The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.

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.

In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up.

The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.