I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Something that you feel will find its own form.

Pain or love or danger makes you real again.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk

Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

For life is holy and every moment is precious.

There's wisdom in wine.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.

You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.

The only truth is music.

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.