Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer.

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.

The dividend I get [from my compulsion] is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.

There are an awful lot of things in the cut of street drugs that eventually make you sick. I reached a point where the skin around the edges of my fingernails used to hurt all the time. And it would peel away easily. Now, that must have been from some poison in the cut.

In some hotels they give you a little sewing kit. You know what I do? I sew the towels together. One time I sewed a button on a lampshade. I like to leave a mark.

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.