"I'm sick of your insane demands. When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?"

"If you don't have a story, you're not a human being. You're just a collection of cells."

"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…"

"Actually one has to think of them, too. How can their problem be solved?—because they're hooked to the drugs, their whole existence depends on drugs. If the drug problem didn't exist, if the whole pro…"

"The poet is a criminal. He stands against the law."