We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

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

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as a leader of the Nova Mob, Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin, said on one occasion.

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

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.