Allen Ginsberg — "I'm not a guru. I'm a poet. I'm a human being."

"I smoked marijuana every chance I get."

"The only way to deal with fear is to face it."

"I feel my life is sterile, I am unbloomed, unused, I have nothing I can have that I will ever want, only some love, only dearness and tenderness, to make me weep. I am moved now and sad and unhappy be…"

"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private."

"There's an end to suffering when you understand the openness of things. And that the way out would be to have a right view of it, (that is an understanding of the whole situation, the whole transitory…"