How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far.

A functioning police state needs no police.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.

Given certain known factors in an equation and the equation comprising a situation of absolute need - any form of need - you can predict the results. Leave a sick junkie in the back room of a drugstore and only one result is possible.

I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest Proposal pamphlet incorporated into Naked Lunch; these pamphlets have marked Naked Lunch as an obscene book.

I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.