"I'm not interested in being a Beat Generation icon. I'm interested in being a human being."

"I used to be a communist when I was a kid I'm not sorry. I smoke marijuana every chance I get."

"The LSD was sort of human but I was getting big reptilian nonhuman scaly dragon cosmoses out of it which made me throw up and I didn't see why I should be intimidated by anyone's consciousness, even m…"

"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private."

"I am a mystery, and I am a secret, and I am a riddle, and I am a paradox, and I am a contradiction, and I am a truth."