If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.
I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.
What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.
I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.
To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with skin wrapped around it.
Sometimes the need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.