I really would like to stop working forever—never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now—and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends…. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence. – Allen Ginsberg
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. – Allen Ginsberg
Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness. – Allen Ginsberg
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed. – Allen Ginsberg
My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the worlds worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is. – Anthony Horowitz