We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.

I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.

Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.

There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.

All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?

In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up.

The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

Dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so.

I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.

You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.

Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines.

Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government.

As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen.

There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.

Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.

Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.

[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

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