I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.

That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge.

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever.