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

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

"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."

"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 final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."

"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."

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