Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

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

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.