Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
“Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.”
“I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.”