"To be good, you've got to be a little crazy."

"The world is a nightmare of police states and corporate control."

"I'm not a mystic. I'm a realist."

"Illusion is dangerous, ultimately poisonous."

"I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I'm doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to…"