We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.

Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.

Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good big centipede! If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.

Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

The essence of White Supremacy is this: they are people who want to keep things as they are. That their children's children's children might be a different color is something very alarming to them - in short they are committed to the maintenance of the static image.