Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties.
Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa’s face.
For God’s sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what’s going on around you.
The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe of the industrial age is breaking down into cryptic fragments.
When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak.
First there was a young guy sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother, then there was an older fatter person sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother.
I’m an old-fashioned person, and I don’t like informers.
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
Cut word lines – Cut music lines – Smash the control images – Smash the control machine – Burn the books – Kill the priests – Kill! Kill! Kill!
Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.
Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.
I’m creating an imaginary – it’s always imaginary – world in which I would like to live.
Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.
I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.
Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
There’s a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.
I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.
Shooting is my principal pastime.
The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.