I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

Naked Lunch was from about a thousand pages of material. A lot of it overflowed, then, into the cut-up trilogy including Nova Express.

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.

The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.

A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I feel that a writer has the right to the same freedom In fact, I think that the time has come for the line between literature and science, a purely arbitrary line, to be erased.

The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines.

Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.