If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

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.

When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light...

Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

Like Spain, I am bound to the past.

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.

Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.

I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute, & if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it

A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.

Cowboy: New York hood talk means kill the mother fucker wherever you find him. A rat is a rat is a rat is a rat. Is an informer.

If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.

Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.

You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk..

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

It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist.

Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil. Before the settlers, before the Indians... the evil was there... waiting.

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.

When you cut into the present, the future leaks out

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

NOTHING happens by coincidence.

He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells...

Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.

O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time...

The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

He remembers his fathers last words: “Stay out of churches, son. All they got a key to is the shit house. And swear to me you’ll never wear a lawman’s badge.

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.

I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.

My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.

Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

The good life is one that's artistically made.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

I frequently dream of being on these horses' backs and running across a field. And the horse and I are one.

What does God need with a starship?

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.