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

There are no innocent bystanders.

If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.

Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.

I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.