"Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!"

"I'm a revolutionary, but I'm not a violent revolutionary."

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

"My own first principle of life: to be honest, to be simple, to be myself, to be an American, a Jew, a poet, a homosexual, a mystic, a Buddhist, a father, a son, a lover, a friend, a neighbor, a citize…"

"What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?"