An Addict Never Stops Growing.

A John Is Different From A Sucker. When You're With A Sucker You're On Alert All The Time. You Give Him Nothing. A Sucker Is Just To Be Taken But A John Is Different. You Give Him What He Pays For. When You're With Him You Enjoy Yourself And You Want Him To Enjoy Himself Too.

Many Of My Characters First Came Through To Me As Voices. That's Why I Use A Tape Recorder.

Panic Is The Sudden Realization That Everything Around You Is Alive.

Shooting Is My Principal Pastime.

Naked Lunch Was From About A Thousand Pages Of Material. A Lot Of It Overflowed, Then, Into The Cut-up Trilogy Including Nova Express.