If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.

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

It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical conclusion. Some people appear to have understood it. The publication of Naked Lunch in England practically coincided with their abolition of capital punishment. The book obviously had a certain effect.

Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.

Time is what death needs to grow people in.

A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.