Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass.

America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.

An addict never stops growing. Stupider.

The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.

As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'

Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.