No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.

It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.

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

I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.