Quotes
Horses are a dying artifact.
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is
acting not at all to his advantage.
The Pusher always gets it all back.
Language is a virus.
If you're doin' business with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing. His word isn't worth shit, not with the Good Lord tellin' him how to fuck you on the deal.
This is a game planet.
In Timbuktu I once saw an Arab boy who could play a flute
with his ass, and the fairies told me he was really an individual in bed.
My purpose in writing has always been to express human
potentials and purposes relevant to the Space Age.
So cheat
your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It
cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
¾The Western Lands
There
couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
Black magic
operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the
most effective.
Nothing
exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by
observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist
by observing it. I call it creative observation. Creative viewing.
There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of
myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give
yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die or boredom.
The only possible ETHIC is to do what one wants to do.
Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
¾Cities of the Red Night
A functioning police state needs no police.
It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido.
¾Naked Lunch
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER."
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?
I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.