What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.

I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.

I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.

I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.