The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance.

If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.

Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.

Too perfect to be sexually attractive.