In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

I took a shot of morphine, liked it, and eventually became addicted. It takes quite a while. It took me three months the first time. This nonsense of people becoming addicted with one shot is medically unsound.

There are no innocent bystanders.

The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government.

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

I think Judge Learned Hand was a cultured, intelligent man.

There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.