"This is D.J., Disc Jockey to America turning off. Vietnam, hot dam."

"One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing…"

"Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle."

"You're contending with a genius, D.J. is his name, only American alive who could outtalk Cassius Clay, that's lip."

"[The launch of Apollo 11]: For at 8.9 seconds before lift-off, the motors of Apollo-Saturn leaped into ignition and t…"

"There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be."

"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more …"

"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller a…"

"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing."

"With the pride of an artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your de…"