Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken.

Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.

Love is dope, not chicken soup.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.