Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.
Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.