"An electric chain seems to vibrate, as..." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.”

“Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.”

“To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.”

“[Polythene Pam] was me, remembering a little event with a woman in Jersey, and a man who was England's answer to Allen Ginsberg, who gave us our first exposure - this is so long - you can't deal with all this. You see, everything triggers amazing memories. I met him when we were on tour and he took me back to his apartment and I had a girl and he had one he wanted me to meet. He said she dressed up in polythene, which she did. She didn't wear jackboots and kilts, I just sort of elaborated. Perverted sex in a polythene bag. Just looking for something to write about.”

“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.”

“As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above", I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.”

“There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.”

“This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it.”

“I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.”