...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.

A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street.

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.

Will you love me in December as you do in May?

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.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk.