Quotes on My Biography

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Biography is the only true history.

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.