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.

I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.

If you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.

I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.

Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good big centipede! If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

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

Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.