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

There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.

I'm definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves - they're reality-addicts, they've got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.

Naked Lunch was from about a thousand pages of material. A lot of it overflowed, then, into the cut-up trilogy including Nova Express.