I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or opiates. In Iran, until recently, they sold opium in shops legally, and they had 3,000,000 addicts in a population of 15,000,000. I don't believe that all those people were escaping from "complexes" or anything of the sort. They were simply exposed to it.

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

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

Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.