The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd..

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again..

I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty ….

the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them..

We must.. We must bring our own light to the darkness.

The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people..

I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, o….

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning..

Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of pi….

if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready..

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives..

I am this fiery snail crawling home..

I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't f….

I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been rubbed raw by experience. There….

If you let them kill you, they will.

It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the s….

and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!.

Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto..

An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing..

The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or y….