Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.
The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.
From it’s inception Beat poetry was hailed as “something NEW” and “like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected – by hip people who listen.” But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.
All these books are published in Heaven.
I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.
Scientist alone is true poet.
Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection – with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.
Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art.
The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter.
Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.
I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.
It isn’t enough for your heart to break because everybody’s heart is broken now.
War is good business; invest your son.
Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!
What if someone gave a war and nobody came?
Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?
Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!
A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don’t hide the madness.
Inside skull vast as outside skull.