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

Well, "disgusting" doesn't refer to the books but to the subjective reaction of the person making the complaint. I don't think that anything is disgusting per se. These words "disgusting" and "filthy," etc., have prevented us from undertaking any scientific experimentation in sexual matters.

When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak.

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

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.

Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay