Gregory Corso Quotes

You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.

They, that unnamed “they,” they’ve knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I’ve long ago named them me.

The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool – the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man.

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I’m a wealthy man.

Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn’t exist and people go in the electric chair and all that.