 A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. |
| Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm? |
| Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. |
| How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. |
| The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. |
| You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. |
| Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. |
| Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. |
| I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing. |
| A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering. |
| Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. |
| The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits. |
| Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. |
| In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. |
| Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. |
| Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means. |
| There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. |
| Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. |
| I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all. |
| Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way. |
