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.
Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.
I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.
Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.
The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time...
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody’s allowed to mind their own business.
In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling.
We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.
I do spend a great deal of time alone. I’m not very gregarious. I don’t like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are.
The simplest questions are the most difficult.