Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.

When I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I didn't believe them about addiction.

Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.

Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.

The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.