All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

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

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.

Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness.