The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

Information is control.

It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past ... Here is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else, for all those who drifted away from the cold and the past and the old ways.

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one