Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another.

First there was a young guy sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother, then there was an older fatter person sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.