Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly non-transferrable. But a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to a client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell.

You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk.

I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac].

For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.

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

Consider the impasse of a one-God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere, since He is already everywhere. He can't do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road.

When you stop growing you start dying.