“The development of an informal public life depends people finding and enjoying one another outside the cash nexus.”

“The course of urban development in America is pushing the individual toward that line seperating proud independence from pitiable isolation.”

“I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.”

“I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.”

“You're just going to bear witness to his life. I think sometimes that's the greatest gift we can give one another.”

“When I look back now, I realize what a trial I must have been to my friends and relatives. It was one frenzy after one elation after one enthusiasm after one hysteria after another. I was always yelling and running somewhere, because I was afraid life was going to be over that very afternoon.”

“The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.”