I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

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• Gregory Corso:

  I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast

• Gregory Corso:

  My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Si

• Gregory Corso:

  My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orph

• Gregory Corso:

  My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her

• Gregory Corso:

  Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't

• Gregory Corso:

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

• Gregory Corso:

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

• Gregory Corso:

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

• Gregory Corso:

  The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through t

• Gregory Corso:

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