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

The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.

I think Judge Learned Hand was a cultured, intelligent man.

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

According to the legend an evil old doctor, who called himself God and us dogs, created the first boy in his adolescent image. The boy peopled the garden with male phantoms that rose from his ejaculations. This angered God, who was getting on in years. He decided it endangered his position as CREATOR. So he crept upon the boy and anaesthetized him and made Eve from his rib. Henceforth all creation of beings would process through female channels. But some of Adam's phantoms refused to let God near them under any pretext.

When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.