A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder at their own lies, will be to make them open up and be straight with one another. Swift and Rabelais and Sterne accomplished a step in that direction, and Burroughs another.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

stick at it like a benni addict

So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.

And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam. There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white like washlines and emptyheaded - at least that's what I thought then.

They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.