Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they have in common. In fact, Americans should we say, have less in common than any other nationality.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.

Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.