"Holy the groaning saxophone! Holy the bop apocalypse! Holy the jazzbands marijuana hipsters peace & junk & drums!"

"I'm not a political poet. I'm a human poet."

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

"I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying."

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