Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

I took a shot of morphine, liked it, and eventually became addicted. It takes quite a while. It took me three months the first time. This nonsense of people becoming addicted with one shot is medically unsound.

Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.

In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what he wants. It's only through a confront, a non-verbal confront, that anything happens. It has to be non-verbal.

[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.