A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.
Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?
Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.
It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.
An addict never stops growing. Stupider.
The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.
Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
