Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.
William S. BurroughsAll political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.
William S. BurroughsI feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.
William S. Burroughs