"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

"The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive."

"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, angelheaded hipsters burning for …"

"There's an end to suffering when you understand the openness of things. And that the way out would be to have a right view of it, (that is an understanding of the whole situation, the whole transitory…"

"Politicians are ugly caricatures of the human spirit."