[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.

Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.

My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance.

[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other things I didn't have or didn't happen and so on.

I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.

If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.