Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Penguin Modern Classics)

“Did any of you ever see Doctor Tetrazzini perform? I say perform advisedly because his operations were performances. He would start by throwing a scalpel across the room into the patient and then make his entrance like a ballet dancer. His speed was incredible: ‘I don’t give them time to die,’ he would say. Tumors put him in a frenzy of rage. ‘Fuc

“Gentlemen I will slop a pearl: You can find out more about someone by talking than by listening.”