Beat generation Quote by Harvey Pekar

“After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent countless kids on the road. This…

— William S. Burroughs

Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really…

— Garrett Hedlund

I was a Charles Schulz kind of guy. I didn't read comics books. The Warner Bros. guys were great - Chuck Jones and Friz…

— Bob Peterson

I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship of Allen…

— Gary Snyder

People ask me about my influences and I say all the comedians in the 1970s and Dave Allen was a massive influence and a…

— Sean Lock

There's Dick Van Dyke and John Ritter, the two greatest physical comics of our generation.

— Suzanne Somers

Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So…

— Anne Waldman

Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an original.

— Nat Hentoff

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

— Steve Martin

I'm a huge comic book fan, and I've read a lot from all different comic book outlets.

— Jaimie Alexander

Back in the fifties (the nineteen fifties, not the eighteen fifties) I did some writing for Mad Magazine, along with my friend Ernie Kovaks…

— Orson Bean

I'm very much influenced by your traditional comic book artists like Jack Kirby, Alex Toth and Walter Simonson. Their styles were sort of what…

— Tim Fish