All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's what they always say. "Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around." "As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers." Both favor alcohol and are against pot.

[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

I have no message to give the politicians of the world. They're all completely addicted to promiscuous verbalization and I'm quite sure they would not be at all interested in hearing about cut-ups and hieroglyphics and still less interested to hear about silence.

The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I didn't believe them about addiction.

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen