The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.

Given certain known factors in an equation and the equation comprising a situation of absolute need - any form of need - you can predict the results. Leave a sick junkie in the back room of a drugstore and only one result is possible.

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.

Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

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

There's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow made from people who've died of the most loathsome diseases. It's too bad that [David] Cronenberg didn't see this book, see I only saw it after the film was made. It might have been of interest to him.

Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.