Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.
If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?
Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.
Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
Cats didn’t start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.
I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.
If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature’s Survival Course.
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
Death needs time for what it kills to grow in.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.