“Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons.”
― Suttree
― Suttree
“The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.”
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
“I know that to be female is an older thing even than to be human. I want to be as old as I can be.”
― The Passenger
― The Passenger
“Readers will recall that the little evidence collected seemed to point to the strange and confusing figure of an unidentified Air Force pilot whose body was washed ashore on a beach near Dieppe three months later. Other traces of his ‘mortal remains’ were found in a number of unexpected places: in a footnote to a paper on some unusual aspects of schizophrenia published thirty years earlier in a since defunct psychiatric journal; in the pilot for an unpurchased TV thriller, ‘Lieutenant 70’; and on the record labels of a pop singer known as The Him — to instance only a few. Whether in fact this man was a returning astronaut suffering from amnesia, the figment of an ill-organized advertising campaign, or, as some have suggested, the second coming of Christ, is anyone’s guess.”
― The Atrocity Exhibition
― The Atrocity Exhibition
“they were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice.”
― Dhalgren
― Dhalgren
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