1978 Quote by Allen Ginsberg

“Around Jack (Kerouac) there circulated a palpable aura of fame and death.”

— Gary Snyder

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

— Edward Abbey

“Next door but one is Quinlan Broddle, a Viceroy with a fear of gardens. So much so that he sold his garden to Virgin…

— St. John Morris

“Thistle flashes a wicked smile. "Oh, you haven't heard that one? The government struck a bargain with a cannibal, and they use him to…

— Jack Heath

“the way in which he looked round for the approval of his cronies that he was "showing off," so I put in a word…

— Bram Stoker

“His version of knocking someone around involves a funeral home and a cemetery plot. And that’s if they can find enough of the body…

— Lynn Hagen

“A few machines dance in the air, an orderly has to be sedated, and suddenly you’re Freddy freakin’ Krueger.”

— Jennifer Harlow

“By all the rules of modern fiction there should have been gunsmoke mingling its acrid blue with the brown haze of corral dust. Dead…

— B.M. Bower

“The next day this meeting at Apalachin is the biggest thing to ever happen to Italian gangsters in America. All of a sudden they…

— Charles Brandt

“Life," Graveworthy said, when he saw Jack was awake and staring at him, "is a series of desperate gambles and boxing matches for the…

— Sam Starbuck

“I met a man with no forehead and receding eyebrows. He had ketchup crusted on his eyelids. I can't remember what we talked about,…

— Jarod Kintz

“What's going on here, Tommy? Has Keffers recruited you for his porn patrol?”

— Kazuo Ishiguro