Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.

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.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government.

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are.