The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

Shooting is my principal pastime.

Given certain known factors in an equation and the equation comprising a situation of absolute need - any form of need - you can predict the results. Leave a sick junkie in the back room of a drugstore and only one result is possible.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

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.

I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.