Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!

I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest Proposal pamphlet incorporated into Naked Lunch; these pamphlets have marked Naked Lunch as an obscene book.

We should exterminate all rational thought.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.

The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing power, and more sophisticated techniques used by establishment mass media to falsify, misrepresent, misquote, rule out of consideration as a priori ridiculous, or simply ignore and blot out of existence: data, books, discoveries that they consider prejudicial to establishment interest.