“Does kittykat know there's a pigeon on the clothes closet?”

“What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.”

“Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy”

“I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why.”

“New York gets god awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in the streets.”

“Does this mean that frontiers from now on are to be in the imagination?”

“LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.”