The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen. . . . In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through, did you get any glimpse of the Ugly Spirit, what that was historically or biographically?

A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

First thought, best thought.

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

Everybody's serious but me.

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.