You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.

We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color.

The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.

There's no place for impractical dreamers around here.

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