Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.

Belief is a meaningless word. What does it mean? I believe something. Okay, now you have someone who is hearing voices and believes in these voices. It doesn't mean they have any necessary reality. Your whole concept of your "I" is an illusion. You have to give something called an "I" before you speak of what the "I" believes.

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

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

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.