Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are impervious to the repugnance of others. It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido... The junky's shame disappears with his nonsexual sociability which is also dependent on libido.

If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.

Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form.

That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.