“You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”

Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.

If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.

I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

I’ll never try to put on a fake image. I’m just Zac.

Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

Remember that what has once been done may be done again.