"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for …"

"Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!"

"I smoked marijuana every chance I get."

"I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane."

"The CIA is dope peddlers, murderers, and liars."