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

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.

Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.

Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another.