The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers

Time is what death needs to grow people in.

It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical conclusion. Some people appear to have understood it. The publication of Naked Lunch in England practically coincided with their abolition of capital punishment. The book obviously had a certain effect.

As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen.

Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a deficiency they hope to remedy by ingesting masses of data.

[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.