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

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

Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness.

I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.