The word is now a virus.

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.

Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.