Allen Ginsberg — "The universe is a dance, and we are all dancers in it."

"I'm an essence, but I'm not an apparition."

"I’m not afraid to say that the U.S. government is the most violent institution in the world."

"I'm a great believer in the idea that if you don't have something to say, you shouldn't say it."

"One time I thought she was trying to make me come lay her -- flirting to herself at sink -- lay back on huge bed that filled most of the room, dress up round her hips, big slash of hair..."

"Because I am still clinging to my human known me, Allen Ginsberg — and to enter this thing means final, complete abandonment of all I know of my I am except for this outer-seeming otherness which requ…"