Lawrence Lipton > Quotes

“All the misfits of the world--the too fat and too lean, the too tall and the too short, the jerk, the drip, the half-wit and the spastic, the harelip and the gimp. All the broken, the doomed, the drunk and the disillusioned--herding together for a little human warmth, where a one-room kitchenette is an apartment and the naked electric bulb hangs suspended from the ceiling like an exposed nerve”
― Lawrence Lipton, The Holy Barbarians

“a hand on your cock is more moral
-and more fun-
than a finger on the trigger.”
― Lawrence Lipton

“My poetry is, or should be, useful to me for one reason: it is the record of my individual struggle from darkness towards some measure of light”
― Lawrence Lipton, Holy Barbarians