Beat-generation Quotes

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!

I would rather go mad, gone down the dark road to Mexico, heroin dripping in my veins, eyes and ears...

Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for peopl...

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge...

He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a...

Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back.

…of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth.

William Burroughs was simultaneously old and young. Part sheriff, part gumshoe. All writer. He had a...

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, the...