The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

We have a great elaborate machine which I feel has to be completely dismantled - in order to do that we need people who understand how the machine works - the mass media - unparalleled opportunity.

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.

[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.