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

The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe of the industrial age is breaking down into cryptic fragments.

Sexual arousal results from the repetition and impact of image.

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.