Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

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.

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

Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

Like Spain, I am bound to the past.

Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.

Sexual arousal results from the repetition and impact of image.