The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.

So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.