You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared -

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.