You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

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

Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.

If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the pyramid: the Addict in the Street, and stop tilting quixotically for the "higher ups" so called, all of whom are immediately replaceable. The addict in the street who must have junk to live is the one irreplaceable factor in the junk equation. When there are no more addicts to buy junk there will be no junk traffic. As long as junk need exists, someone will service it.

Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.