“I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 -...” — Allen Ginsberg Quote

“I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.”

“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.”

“I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over my father's role of taking care of my mother... and having to be the recipient of her confessions and emotions but of a delusional nature.”

“I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.”

“We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.”

“A lot of people tend to get intimidated by looking at a place where they're from as empty. I look at it like a clean slate.”