Confusion hath fuck his masterpiece.

In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

Paranoia is just having the right information.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

Danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

As one judge said to another judge: be just. And if you can’t be just, be arbitrary

When I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not. - pg. 41

Too perfect to be sexually attractive.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.

What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.

Dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so...

I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

And if you're doing a deal with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing.

I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.

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.