I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.

I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics

One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.