Who said “America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.”?

“The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.”

“The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.”

“One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.”

“To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.”

“I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.”

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.”

“Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!”

“It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.”

“My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.”

“Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, jiggling your knees blankly in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.”

“Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.”