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.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

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