"I'm not a beatnik. I'm a writer."

"The junk merchant doesn’t sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul will grow sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have …"

"The word is a virus that creates its own reality."

"The only way to be a good writer is to be a bad person."