In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

Never interfere in a girl and boy fight.

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.

[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.