"As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the upper Paleolithic: the fertility of the soil, …"

"I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association…"

"Better, the perfect, easy discipline of the swallows dip and swoop, without east or west."

"How could we be were it not for this planet that provided our very shape? Two conditions—gravity and livable temperat…"

"If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest per…"

"I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness— America—yo…"

"The Sioux idea of living creatures is that trees, buffalo and men are temporary energy swirls, turbulence patterns ..…"

"The national polities of the modern world maintain their existence by deliberately fostered craving and fear. ... The…"

"The Bodhisattva lives by the sufferer’s standard, and he must be effective in aiding those who suffer."

"The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic se…"