"This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven."

"A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness."

"Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow."

"The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open."

"Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!"

"No rest without love, No sleep without dreams of love - be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines the final wish is love."

"What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?"

"America I've given you all and now I'm nothing... I can't stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb."

"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."

"Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?"

"I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator."

"I learned a world from each / one whom I loved"

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving..."

"Sanity - a trick of agreement"

"All these books are published in Heaven."

"You too must seek the sun..."

"Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!"

"I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly."

"The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene"

"Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness."

"I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?"

"He threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it"

"The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!"

"Sometime I’ll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone."

"Who’ll come lie down in the dark with me Belly to belly and knee to knee Who’ll look into my hooded eye Who’ll lie down under my darkened thigh?"

"The universe is mad, slightly mad."

"What is obscenity? And to whom?"

"What came is gone forever every time"

"…we’re all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we’re all blessed by our own seed & golden hairy naked accomplishment (Sunflower Sutra)"

"War is good business Invest your son"

"Happiness exists I feel it. I cried for my soul, I cried for the world's soul. The world has a beautiful soul."

"He saw that I was shy, and at the time I was still scared of feeling with another person, so he put his arm around me and pulled me and put my head on his breast and gave me love actually."

"Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!"

"Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]"

"No more to say, and nothing to weep for"

"Absolutes are Coercion. Change is absolute."

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.