Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

Life is a vacation from two eternities.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.