After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

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

Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.

It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result.

Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.

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.

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.