When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.

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

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far.

When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.

Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.