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.

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.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.

For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.