"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix."

"I’m not afraid to say what I mean. That’s why I’m a poet."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul will grow sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have …"

"The war is language, language abused for Advertisement, language used like magic for power on the planet."

"I'm not a politician. I'm a poet."