Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.
Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.
I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.