It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.