The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.

Time is what death needs to grow people in.