Naked Lunch Quotes

A frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.

A good junky story is a naked lunch.

A paranoid is a man who knows a little of what’s going on.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.

As things appear to decay in the first creation, so do they in the second.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change.

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

Freedom from personal disturbance is a way of expanding your financialbase.

Good manners and bad breath always get you nowhere.

Half of the time we’re gone but we don’t know where, and we don’t know where.

I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

I mistrust any good in this world unless it is for some good end.

I think that, so far as consciousness is concerned, there is no change involved.

If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.

In pictures of the genitalia is proof of my humanity.

In the arts, superstition is discarded where it does not concern.

Is this a smile, or is this a grimace?

It is impossible to connect with an organic body that plays an abstract tape.

Naked Lunch Quotes part 2

It takes a long time to become young.

It’s not sex that wrecks these stockings, honey, it’s sheer exhaustion.

Let’s put it this way: There is no way not to go mad in this society.

Man does not renounce his senses to attain insight, but rather the perfection he seeks in whipped cream.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

Nature is a mob of WiFi energies.

Panic with a sense of style.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade.

Seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another, you can dissolve the boundaries that separate you from other beings.

Speaking of pornography, some time ago, I asked myself some questions.

The aim is to chop off the head of the corrupt world,”

The body is inneffable in consisting of void within void.

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

The junkie invents his own way of life.

The last sound will be a man choking on a final jar.

The present is the enemy. In order to live man must be exalted like an angel.

The purpose of a man is to love a woman and the purpose of a woman is to love a man.

Time is a lie. It has already happened.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

To rehearse what you are accomplishing with your life is to lose appreciation of the living moment.

To sail beyond the sunset, you must consent to gravitate on your given ship.

We wanted to change the world. The world only changed itself.

When you get down to brass tacks, junk is a way of life.

You have to be willing to be in jail for two to three years simply to determine if this is a long-term possibility.

You see, there is no pattern to the chaos.