Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Naked Lunch was from about a thousand pages of material. A lot of it overflowed, then, into the cut-up trilogy including Nova Express.

Sexual arousal results from the repetition and impact of image.

All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.