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

"I want to be a saint, a madman, a criminal, a prophet, a god, a monster, a genius, an ordinary man, a holy man, a sexual maniac, a mystic, a poet, a lover, a father, a son, a brother, a friend, a neig…"

"I'm a great believer in the power of love, and the power of compassion, and the power of forgiveness."

"I don't think there's any such thing as obscenity. I think it's a social invention."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."