Beat-generation Quotes

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

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...