"During the '70s, when the Cold War was still on, we invited Voznesensky and Yevtushenko to come here. We had very lar…"

"The tempest unleashes an alphabet letters fall through the apertures of crazy angles to spell out the future uprootin…"

"The stars are dreaming but they are laughing I see myself in the smile of a polar bear while turning the pages of an …"

"Lawrence is usually the first poet kids read in schools that they really like. It's a real turn-on for them."

"We have one called Commodity Aesthetics, which is our section on popular culture."

"The most important of the beat poets. He was a really true poet with an original voice, probably the most lyrical of …"

"The old San Francisco is under attack to the point where it's disappearing"

"Maybe a thousand dollars"

"When I joined City Lights in 1971 and started working with Lawrence, it was clear that it had been very much a center…"

"Ginsberg used to stay in the publishing house. Our editorial office had two rooms and a kitchen; it was a tiny place.…"