The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I didn't believe them about addiction.

Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.

Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.