It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

All literature is gossip.

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you; on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: "Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger." A voodoo amulet, so to say.