Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I never quite saw it.

That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.