Allen Ginsberg

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.