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.

The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.

If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.

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

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.

I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac].