We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another.

If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.