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Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.
They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.
An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.
I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
I'd almost prefer [Richard] Nixon. I'd say [Bill] Clinton is every bit as corrupt as Nixon, but a lot smoother.
'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.
Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.
I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.
I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.
I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.
Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.
Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.
Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.
Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.
Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.
I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.
It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.
At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.
I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.
Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want
All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.
There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
Good people drink good beer. Just look around any public barroom and you will see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.
Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.
Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious.
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics