So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.

[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.

America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

A functioning police state needs no police.

I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.