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.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.

Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.

Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.

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

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

The word is now a virus.