Lucien Carr Quotes

Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that bores me is bad.

everybody in the world is beautiful and sweet but dumb

I love first times. I want my whole life to be composed of them. Life is only interesting if life is wide.

It reminds me of a remark Lucien [Carr] once made to me: He said "You never seem to give yourself away completely, but of course dark-haired people are so mysterious.

Make me cry, or make me horny.

I've figured out a whole philosophy on the idea of waste as evil and creation as good. So long as you are creating something it is good. The only sin is waste of your potentialities... ...[Lifebuoy soap ads are] what you call wasteful creation. It's all dichotomized. Then there's creative waste, such as talking to you now.

Kenneth Wood was sitting on the windowsill looking at him sardonically, yet with that sadness that always happened when they looked at each other - as though there was something they knew that nobody else knew, a crazy sorrowful knowledge of themselves in the middle of the pitiable world.