Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance.

To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. ... Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life.

The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.