Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.

We have a great elaborate machine which I feel has to be completely dismantled - in order to do that we need people who understand how the machine works - the mass media - unparalleled opportunity.

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.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.

Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.

I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.