I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.

A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait.

I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.

Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.