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Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
I think Judge Learned Hand was a cultured, intelligent man.
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.
Hemingway said: 'It don't come anymore.' So where did it go?
[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.
Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.
As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'
Sexual arousal results from the repetition and impact of image.
Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.
Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.
Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.
Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.
If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.
Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.
It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.
No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.
as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
If you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.
Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .
I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac].
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.
Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.
There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.
Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness.
The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance.
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.
Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.